IRibbonUI.ActivateTab(string)

[David Thielen]

Compiles fine in Office 2010 but not Office 2007. Is this new to 2010?
And if so, how do I activate one of my tabs?

thanks - dave

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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Yes, you are right. IRibbonUI.ActivateTab() method is a new Ribbon
developemtn improvement in Office 2010. It is introduced in this office
2010 new feature blog article,
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2009/11/03/ui-extensibility-in-o
ffice-2010.aspx

For Office 2007, we have to set the keytip of a Ribbon tab. After that we
can activate a tab by calling SendKeys.Send. See Cindy's reply in this
discussion
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vsto/thread/8717e9fd-ddac-4cf6
-8064-3ee6bd778750/

Hope this helps and have a nice day!


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[David Thielen]

Hello Dave,

Yes, you are right. IRibbonUI.ActivateTab() method is a new Ribbon
developemtn improvement in Office 2010. It is introduced in this office
2010 new feature blog article,
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2009/11/03/ui-extensibility-in-o
ffice-2010.aspx

For Office 2007, we have to set the keytip of a Ribbon tab. After that we
can activate a tab by calling SendKeys.Send. See Cindy's reply in this
discussion
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vsto/thread/8717e9fd-ddac-4cf6
-8064-3ee6bd778750/

Hope this helps and have a nice day!

Yep - doing that. The SendKeys has timing problems so I was hoping we
had a better solution for 2007. Oh well...

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

 

[Tony Jollans]

As I've just replied to one of your other questions, this (like most things
that are denied by default) can be done using Accessibility (see
http://www.wordarticles.com/Shorts/RibbonVBA/RibbonVBADemo.htm).

 

[David Thielen]

As I've just replied to one of your other questions, this (like most things
that are denied by default) can be done using Accessibility (see
http://www.wordarticles.com/Shorts/RibbonVBA/RibbonVBADemo.htm).

Thanks - I'll try this.

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm