Ribbons, Toolbars and Menus

[Guest]

After some trial and error, I have managed to create custom ribbons for my
applications. (Good on Microsoft for this one, but a litlle more on this
topic in the Help File would help). I cannot figure out how to create the
custom menu, toolbar or shortcut menus which were, by comparison to ribbons,
easy to do in earlier versions.

I can do without the Menu and Toolbars which can be replaced with a Custom
Ribbon, but the shortcut menu was particularly useful for reports. The
shortcut menu still appears with a Rt-Click on reports designed in A2003. I
Have the option to add or remove the shortcut menu even after conversion to
A2007. Question is, how does one create these in A2007?

I cannot find any reference to shortcut menus in the help files or on line.

Can anyone point me to a source of info on this?

 

[Peter Doering]

After some trial and error, I have managed to create custom ribbons for my
applications. (Good on Microsoft for this one, but a litlle more on this
topic in the Help File would help). I cannot figure out how to create the
custom menu, toolbar or shortcut menus which were, by comparison to ribbons,
easy to do in earlier versions.

I can do without the Menu and Toolbars which can be replaced with a Custom
Ribbon, but the shortcut menu was particularly useful for reports. The
shortcut menu still appears with a Rt-Click on reports designed in A2003. I
Have the option to add or remove the shortcut menu even after conversion to
A2007. Question is, how does one create these in A2007?

I cannot find any reference to shortcut menus in the help files or on line.

Can anyone point me to a source of info on this?

www.accessribbon.com

 

[James A. Fortune]

After some trial and error, I have managed to create custom ribbons for my
applications. (Good on Microsoft for this one, but a litlle more on this
topic in the Help File would help). I cannot figure out how to create the
custom menu, toolbar or shortcut menus which were, by comparison to ribbons,
easy to do in earlier versions.

I can do without the Menu and Toolbars which can be replaced with a Custom
Ribbon, but the shortcut menu was particularly useful for reports. The
shortcut menu still appears with a Rt-Click on reports designed in A2003. I
Have the option to add or remove the shortcut menu even after conversion to
A2007. Question is, how does one create these in A2007?

I cannot find any reference to shortcut menus in the help files or on line.

Can anyone point me to a source of info on this?

Microsoft has created some new tools for working with XML. Once the
database is converted to A2007, my guess is that the shortcut menu will
be described with XML. So convert an A2003 database with the shortcut
menu and look to see if you can find any XML that describes the shortcut
menu. For Word 2007, I think getting at the XML involved taking a .docx
extension and replacing it or just tacking on a .zip extension and
looking at the files (remember to revert any changed file names back).
It may also be possible to put code in an A2007 macro in much the same
way as it was done using an A2003 module, but I think doing it with XML
fits the new paradigm better. Much of this is conjecture since I have
not used Office 2007 yet but I am excited about the new techniques that
will become possible because of the use of XML to describe the UI.

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)

Another part that you can go and drop in to these packages is the UI
definition for that file. So it's another just XML file you go and drop
in and it completely controls the UI of that document.

....

Unless your user knew how to unzip it and edit the XML they won't be
changing the UI.

-- Brian Jones, PDC05 OFF304

 

[Guest]

Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.

I wrote my first line in XML two days ago and the examples in this site make
a lot of sense. My next search is for a list of commands to use in XML. I
will do a search and post back if I find anything useful.