(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:53 am
Post subject: How to get custom styles onto a custom word 2007 ribbon tab Archived from groups: microsoft>public>word>customization>menustoolbars (more info?)
I've been converting my company's word 2003 templates into 2007 templates and
using the Office 2007 Custom UI Editor to convert the custom 2003 toolbars
into a custom 2007 ribbon tab.
The whole process so far has been fairly straight forward so far, even
getting macros on the ribbon and assigning custom images to them has been
fairly painless; however I have just hit a problem and was wondering if
someone can help.
In earlier versions of Word (Word 97-2003) you can drag template styles onto
a toolbar so the end user can apply the style at the press of a button, and
our 2003 templates use this feature a lot especially when applying bulleted
or numbered outline lists to text.
The 2007 ribbon has list galleries, the style gallery and even the style
task pane (however list styles now don't appear in the Styles Task Pane),
however our users have requested the style buttons from the 2003 templates be
retained.
Looking at the WordRibbonControls.xls I can find Heading1Apply,
Heading2Apply, Heading3Apply and Heading4Apply commands for the ribbon, but I
can't find a way to get any of our custom styles onto the Ribbon, other than
creating a macro for each style and then assigning the macros to the Ribbon.
Is there an easier way to get Custom styles onto the ribbon that doesn’t
involve any of the galleries, or task panes or macros?
(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:39 am
Post subject: Re: How to get custom styles onto a custom word 2007 ribbon tab [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
In the Manage Styles dialog (click the button for it in the Styles task
pane) you can control the visibility and priority of styles and also
indicate which ones are to be Quick Styles (which will be shown on Home tab
of the Ribbon).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Al" <Al.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C0ADD0F0-F6AE-4E88-9396-CC2EA00FE143@microsoft.com...
> I've been converting my company's word 2003 templates into 2007 templates
> and
> using the Office 2007 Custom UI Editor to convert the custom 2003 toolbars
> into a custom 2007 ribbon tab.
>
> The whole process so far has been fairly straight forward so far, even
> getting macros on the ribbon and assigning custom images to them has been
> fairly painless; however I have just hit a problem and was wondering if
> someone can help.
>
> In earlier versions of Word (Word 97-2003) you can drag template styles
> onto
> a toolbar so the end user can apply the style at the press of a button,
> and
> our 2003 templates use this feature a lot especially when applying
> bulleted
> or numbered outline lists to text.
>
> The 2007 ribbon has list galleries, the style gallery and even the style
> task pane (however list styles now don't appear in the Styles Task Pane),
> however our users have requested the style buttons from the 2003 templates
> be
> retained.
>
> Looking at the WordRibbonControls.xls I can find Heading1Apply,
> Heading2Apply, Heading3Apply and Heading4Apply commands for the ribbon,
> but I
> can't find a way to get any of our custom styles onto the Ribbon, other
> than
> creating a macro for each style and then assigning the macros to the
> Ribbon.
>
> Is there an easier way to get Custom styles onto the ribbon that doesn't
> involve any of the galleries, or task panes or macros?
>
> Regards
>
> Al
>
(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:39 am
Post subject: Re: How to get custom styles onto a custom word 2007 ribbon tab [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Hi Suzanne
TY for the reply, yep knew this one, and when I first built the new Word
2007 templates for my company, I did just that and provided tuition on how
the new templates and more important "the RibbonX" works.
However, like so many other posters have stated, some people just find the
Ribbon too hard to get used to, I must admit it took me some time to get over
my right click addiction in favour of the Ribbon click.
So I have been asked to emulate the old 2003 templates and have one button
for every custom style within the template. This equates to 4 x multilevel
list styles, 3 x body text styles and 5 x table text styles all needed on the
Ribbon and each displaying their 2003 template Icon as being the clickable
button.
Like I said in my first post, the only way I have found to do this so far is
to create a macro for every style and assign the macros to the Ribbon.
Regards
Al
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
> In the Manage Styles dialog (click the button for it in the Styles task
> pane) you can control the visibility and priority of styles and also
> indicate which ones are to be Quick Styles (which will be shown on Home tab
> of the Ribbon).
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> http://word.mvps.org >
> "Al" <Al.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C0ADD0F0-F6AE-4E88-9396-CC2EA00FE143@microsoft.com...
> > I've been converting my company's word 2003 templates into 2007 templates
> > and
> > using the Office 2007 Custom UI Editor to convert the custom 2003 toolbars
> > into a custom 2007 ribbon tab.
> >
> > The whole process so far has been fairly straight forward so far, even
> > getting macros on the ribbon and assigning custom images to them has been
> > fairly painless; however I have just hit a problem and was wondering if
> > someone can help.
> >
> > In earlier versions of Word (Word 97-2003) you can drag template styles
> > onto
> > a toolbar so the end user can apply the style at the press of a button,
> > and
> > our 2003 templates use this feature a lot especially when applying
> > bulleted
> > or numbered outline lists to text.
> >
> > The 2007 ribbon has list galleries, the style gallery and even the style
> > task pane (however list styles now don't appear in the Styles Task Pane),
> > however our users have requested the style buttons from the 2003 templates
> > be
> > retained.
> >
> > Looking at the WordRibbonControls.xls I can find Heading1Apply,
> > Heading2Apply, Heading3Apply and Heading4Apply commands for the ribbon,
> > but I
> > can't find a way to get any of our custom styles onto the Ribbon, other
> > than
> > creating a macro for each style and then assigning the macros to the
> > Ribbon.
> >
> > Is there an easier way to get Custom styles onto the ribbon that doesn't
> > involve any of the galleries, or task panes or macros?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Al
> >
>
>
>
(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:24 am
Post subject: RE: How to get custom styles onto a custom word 2007 ribbon tab [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Hi:
What I have done is create a dialog box with radio buttons that gives a list
of all the customized styles (1st column), short description (2nd column),
assigned customized keyboard shortcuts keys (3rd column). This way, it takes
about 3 keystrokes to apply a style, then the users get to learn the keyboard
shortcuts. Eventually, they use the keyboard shortcuts and the customized
styles are applied to the text. If you want a print screen sample, contact
me at mariette.bisson DeleteThis @mssociety.ca
I have a question for you, how did you apply custom imagest to the
customized preprogrammed buttons in the template toolbar? It was very easy in
2003.. but I cannot find it or figure it out in 2007.
I find this is really bad on Microsoft's part not to have kept that great
feature. I do a lot of customized templates (to work with our SharePoint
environment) and this is a real pain. I hope Microsoft will do something
about this soon.
> I've been converting my company's word 2003 templates into 2007 templates and
> using the Office 2007 Custom UI Editor to convert the custom 2003 toolbars
> into a custom 2007 ribbon tab.
>
> The whole process so far has been fairly straight forward so far, even
> getting macros on the ribbon and assigning custom images to them has been
> fairly painless; however I have just hit a problem and was wondering if
> someone can help.
>
> In earlier versions of Word (Word 97-2003) you can drag template styles onto
> a toolbar so the end user can apply the style at the press of a button, and
> our 2003 templates use this feature a lot especially when applying bulleted
> or numbered outline lists to text.
>
> The 2007 ribbon has list galleries, the style gallery and even the style
> task pane (however list styles now don't appear in the Styles Task Pane),
> however our users have requested the style buttons from the 2003 templates be
> retained.
>
> Looking at the WordRibbonControls.xls I can find Heading1Apply,
> Heading2Apply, Heading3Apply and Heading4Apply commands for the ribbon, but I
> can't find a way to get any of our custom styles onto the Ribbon, other than
> creating a macro for each style and then assigning the macros to the Ribbon.
>
> Is there an easier way to get Custom styles onto the ribbon that doesn’t
> involve any of the galleries, or task panes or macros?
>
> Regards
>
> Al
(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:05 am
Post subject: Re: How to get custom styles onto a custom word 2007 ribbon tab [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Mariette.bisson.TakeThisOut@mssociety.ca wrote:
> Hi:
> What I have done is create a dialog box with radio buttons that gives
> a list of all the customized styles (1st column), short description
> (2nd column), assigned customized keyboard shortcuts keys (3rd
> column). This way, it takes about 3 keystrokes to apply a style, then
> the users get to learn the keyboard shortcuts. Eventually, they use
> the keyboard shortcuts and the customized styles are applied to the
> text. If you want a print screen sample, contact me at
> mariette.bisson.TakeThisOut@mssociety.ca
>
> I have a question for you, how did you apply custom imagest to the
> customized preprogrammed buttons in the template toolbar? It was very
> easy in 2003.. but I cannot find it or figure it out in 2007.
>
> I find this is really bad on Microsoft's part not to have kept that
> great feature. I do a lot of customized templates (to work with our
> SharePoint environment) and this is a real pain. I hope Microsoft
> will do something about this soon.
>
> Thanks
> Mariette
> mariette.bisson.TakeThisOut@mssociety.ca
>
>
>
> "Al" wrote:
>
>> I've been converting my company's word 2003 templates into 2007
>> templates and using the Office 2007 Custom UI Editor to convert the
>> custom 2003 toolbars into a custom 2007 ribbon tab.
>>
>> The whole process so far has been fairly straight forward so far,
>> even getting macros on the ribbon and assigning custom images to
>> them has been fairly painless; however I have just hit a problem and
>> was wondering if someone can help.
>>
>> In earlier versions of Word (Word 97-2003) you can drag template
>> styles onto a toolbar so the end user can apply the style at the
>> press of a button, and our 2003 templates use this feature a lot
>> especially when applying bulleted or numbered outline lists to text.
>>
>> The 2007 ribbon has list galleries, the style gallery and even the
>> style task pane (however list styles now don't appear in the Styles
>> Task Pane), however our users have requested the style buttons from
>> the 2003 templates be retained.
>>
>> Looking at the WordRibbonControls.xls I can find Heading1Apply,
>> Heading2Apply, Heading3Apply and Heading4Apply commands for the
>> ribbon, but I can't find a way to get any of our custom styles onto
>> the Ribbon, other than creating a macro for each style and then
>> assigning the macros to the Ribbon.
>>
>> Is there an easier way to get Custom styles onto the ribbon that
>> doesn't involve any of the galleries, or task panes or macros?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Al
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