The most feature
of office 2007 and later version is that these office systems are Ribbon
compatible.Basically Ribbon in office system is the user interface
element that contains controls. Or you can say ribbon is the parant
control of command controls.
In this article we will learn that how to customize this ribbon in word
application. If you want to see that how to start vsto project click
here
We can customize ribbon with two ways in our word addin
Ribbon(visual Designer)
Ribbon(XML)
In this article we will discuss about Ribbon(Visual Designer) control.
Adding Ribbon in your project:
Select Ribbon (Visual Designer) item and add
You can see built in 'TabAddIns' tab that
contains a group without any control. We can add various office ribbon
controls from toolbox. You can also set the various properties of the
ribbon, tab, group and contained controls from properties windows.
You can see Ribbon designer control in Ribbon1.designer.vb file: