So, you might have 100 cells with data validation drop down lists, but you’ll only see the arrow in the active cell. The data validation drop down arrow only shows when you click on the cell. Later, you opened that workbook, and the data validation arrows are missing! What happened, and how do you get those arrows back? It’s a request that if you have any suggestion or comments or bugs please mention them in the comment section.You added some data validation drop down lists to your Excel worksheet, to make it easier to enter the data. Step 10: Now Build the solution and run excel, you will notice a Custom tab “ Custom Tab using Designer” with a group “ Custom Group” inside which there will be a button “ My Button” with a built-in icon of “ HappyFace” which when clicked opens a messagebox to display the text “ Ribbon button is clicked” as shown below :Ī list of all the control ids and the button ids can be downloaded from the location :
Step 9: Now lets add an event for the button, select the button and in the properties tab add an event “ MyOfficeRibbonEvent“, then add a reference to and in the event handler add a messagebox to display some text when the ribbon icon is clicked as shown below : Then open excel, it will display a button in a group inside a tab as shown below: These icons can be found under the File Menu i.e. These icons can be found in Developer Tab. The list of these icons can be from the following location and name can be selected from the Developer tab -> Gallery as shown below: One of the properties that have been changed is adding a built-in image using the field “ OfficeImageId” with a value “ HappyFace“. Step 7: Now drag-n-drop a button from toolbox under “ Office Ribbon Controls” under which choose “ Button“, name its “ My Button” and change all the properties in Bold as shown below: Step 6: Now drag-n-drop a group from toolbox under “ Office Ribbon Controls” under which choose “ Group“, name its “ Custom Group” and change all the properties in Bold as shown below: TabHome, TabInsert, TabPageLayoutExcel, TabFormulas, TabData, TabReview, TabView, TabDeveloper You can place your add-in as per your requirement by selecting BeforeOfficeId or AfterOfficeId and then specifying the OfficeId as one of the following: Step 5:Now rename the tab label using properties to “ Custom Tab using Designer” and leave the position type to “ Default” as shown below :
Then open the toolbox and select “ Office Ribbon Controls” under which choose “ Tab” and drag-n-drop it on the designer as shown below: Step 4: Now delete the the add-in created by default by selecting it and then pressing Delete Button on your keyboard. If you have a look at the designer tab in visual studio, you will notice, this is the same tab that visual studio has created for you as default. You can also open excel by pressing Debug -> Start Debugging or you can press F5. Now open excel and you will see a new tab called “ Add-Ins” in which there you will notice a group “ group1” as shown below. Step 3: At this stage a default ribbon add-in created for excel, now lets press Build -> Build Solution or you can press Ctrl+Shift+B to build the solution as shown below: On the new popup screen which allows to add a new item, select Ribbon (Visual Designer), name it as “CustomRibbonUsingDesigner” and press add button as shown below:
Step 2: Now right click on the project header and add a new item as shown below : Name the solution as desired, here I have named it “ExcelAddinCustomTabUsingDesigner”, after you click OK button, a new solution will be created with the same name as shown below: Step 1: Create a new excel add-in application using Visual Studio as shown below: This article focuses on creating an excel add-in but any office add-in can be created in a similar fashion.Īs shown in the above image, a custom tab is created with a group and a button with a happy face when clicked displays a message. This is very basic ribbon functionality and requires least amount of code. This article describes a step-by-step approach of creating a Custom Ribbon Tab using C#. This customization can be done using either C# which gets added as a part of the office application or embedding ribbon inside the workbook for excel, document for word, ppt for PowerPoint, etc. Nowadays a lot of business requirement are satisfied using Office customization.
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