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KB said:How do you add a new ribbon in Excel or Word 2007 beta
It's not something for the faint-at-heart, or even for casual users. See
http://pschmid.net/ if you want to add a new ribbon.
Otherwise, your customization options are to add buttons to the QAT. And
that's it, my friend.
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KB
Thanks,Echo S said:It's not something for the faint-at-heart, or even for casual users. See
http://pschmid.net/ if you want to add a new ribbon.
Otherwise, your customization options are to add buttons to the QAT. And
that's it, my friend.
And this is an advance. I'm going to tell people to stick with 2003 which is
customizabel.
KB
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From pschmid.net:
"Do not use RibbonX to restore an Office 2003-like UI. This might be
tempting to avoid the training costs associated with upgrading, but it is
not a forward looking investment. Future upgrades from Microsoft will
probably require additional work. Most importantly though, you are not
reaping any benefits from the new UI design. If you want an Office 2003-like
UI, stick with Office 2003 and do not upgrade."
This is interesting. It implies that restoring the Office 2003 UI may be
possible.
"Do not use RibbonX to restore an Office 2003-like UI. This might be
tempting to avoid the training costs associated with upgrading, but it is
not a forward looking investment. Future upgrades from Microsoft will
probably require additional work. Most importantly though, you are not
reaping any benefits from the new UI design. If you want an Office 2003-like
UI, stick with Office 2003 and do not upgrade."
This is interesting. It implies that restoring the Office 2003 UI may be
possible.
Echo S said:KB said:How do you add a new ribbon in Excel or Word 2007 beta
It's not something for the faint-at-heart, or even for casual users. See
http://pschmid.net/ if you want to add a new ribbon.
Otherwise, your customization options are to add buttons to the QAT. And
that's it, my friend.
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Patrick Schmid
This is interesting. It implies that restoring the Office 2003 UI may
be
you'd need can be created with RibbonX. You'd start from scratch, create
one tab. In the first "row" of the tab, you'd put menu buttons to
recreate the 2003 menus. In the two rows of controls below that, you'd
put normal buttons and comboboxes to recreate the 2003 toolbars.
But why would you want to do this? It just doesn't make much sense:
1) There are several hundreds of controls you'd have to place, per
application.
2) Microsoft is going to change a lot of the ids for all those controls
between now and RTM. Then it might change in subsequent updates. That's
a lot of redoing of work
3) What about galleries? You'd probably have to write your own UI
elements for some of the galleries, e.g. the style one
4) What about features that didn't exist in 2003? Where do you put them?
5) What's in it for users? Sure they get a 2003-like UI, but it still is
a different one. That means you incur training costs for sure. Your
users will be at a disadvantage as well, because it is neither 2003 nor
2007, so no one will really know it. Let's say two different people
chose to do this, then you have two different ways of distributing
features across menus.
6) What about taskpanes? 2007 eliminated dozens of taskpanes. Do you
recreate them?
7) You don't get any of the benefits of the new UI whatsoever. Sure it
takes a while for users to get used to the new one, but once they are,
they have it on average easier (except the top power users that were
shortchanged with the new UI)
8) You can't use any available training material, courses, books
whatsoever. None of that stuff will be for your special version, so you
have to make all the material yourself.
What do you end up getting? An Office that doesn't really look and work
like 2003 nor 2007, isn't supported by anybody besides your in-house
shop, etc. And all of that after a tons of work?
Sorry, but the cheaper and better solution is to stick with 2003. 2007
comes with a major UI model change and you either make the change and
get 2007, or stick with 2003. Trying to make 2007 look like 2003 while
technically possible is impractical.
Also, you wouldn't be able to address the issues power users mainly
complain about, namely the lack of user customization, lack of floating
toolbars & menus, lack of more than one toolbar. These things cannot be
altered this way.
Patrick Schmid
be
It is theoretically possible. All the generic Office 2003 UI componentspossible.
you'd need can be created with RibbonX. You'd start from scratch, create
one tab. In the first "row" of the tab, you'd put menu buttons to
recreate the 2003 menus. In the two rows of controls below that, you'd
put normal buttons and comboboxes to recreate the 2003 toolbars.
But why would you want to do this? It just doesn't make much sense:
1) There are several hundreds of controls you'd have to place, per
application.
2) Microsoft is going to change a lot of the ids for all those controls
between now and RTM. Then it might change in subsequent updates. That's
a lot of redoing of work
3) What about galleries? You'd probably have to write your own UI
elements for some of the galleries, e.g. the style one
4) What about features that didn't exist in 2003? Where do you put them?
5) What's in it for users? Sure they get a 2003-like UI, but it still is
a different one. That means you incur training costs for sure. Your
users will be at a disadvantage as well, because it is neither 2003 nor
2007, so no one will really know it. Let's say two different people
chose to do this, then you have two different ways of distributing
features across menus.
6) What about taskpanes? 2007 eliminated dozens of taskpanes. Do you
recreate them?
7) You don't get any of the benefits of the new UI whatsoever. Sure it
takes a while for users to get used to the new one, but once they are,
they have it on average easier (except the top power users that were
shortchanged with the new UI)
8) You can't use any available training material, courses, books
whatsoever. None of that stuff will be for your special version, so you
have to make all the material yourself.
What do you end up getting? An Office that doesn't really look and work
like 2003 nor 2007, isn't supported by anybody besides your in-house
shop, etc. And all of that after a tons of work?
Sorry, but the cheaper and better solution is to stick with 2003. 2007
comes with a major UI model change and you either make the change and
get 2007, or stick with 2003. Trying to make 2007 look like 2003 while
technically possible is impractical.
Also, you wouldn't be able to address the issues power users mainly
complain about, namely the lack of user customization, lack of floating
toolbars & menus, lack of more than one toolbar. These things cannot be
altered this way.
Patrick Schmid