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Select Office 2003 as the minimum supported Office version.

Choose your preferred language (I went with VB.NET, you can use C# or C++.NET as well).

Create a new ADX COM Add-in project using Add-in Express for Office and.

Let’s build a tab like the one I showed in my last article: Customizing Word User Interface. It’s easy for my users to notice and find the Word addin’s commands. I think it is typically less confusing to the user because the new ribbon tab is conspicuous. I don’t have a large sample of developers to back me up. I think this is the most common type of customization. Create a custom Word ribbon that adds a new tab Mastering these three scenarios covers Pareto Principle and will make you appear like a Word UI customization master. editing headers and footers in a Word document). Create a context-sensitive one: the custom ribbon tab only displays when a specific context is active (e.g.Customize an existing Word ribbon: your customizations integrate with an existing tab.Create a new ribbon: adds an additional tab to the Word Ribbon.There are three main scenarios for custom ribbons. So if you plan on sending files to people with 2003 or earlier, they are going to need a filter to read docx files or you are going to have to save them in doc format.Creating custom ribbons for Word 2013 – 2007 Oh and don't forget the default format for Word 2007 is docx. This is a perfect time to try other products. The new design kills the argument that people know how to use Microsoft products.

Which means your tool bar is going to be pretty long. Basically to get your missing functions back you need to add buttons to the Quick Access tool bar. If you could customize the ribbon it would make it useful as such, the ribbon is useless. The ribbon would make sense if you can change it to include or exclude functions. You cannot change the ribbon to include other functions!! The ribbons DO NOT contain all the functions of that group, they only contain a small subset of functions. Word, Excel and PowerPoint all have the new interface. So people coming from 2003 to 2007 will be completely lost! For christ's sake try and find Help! Unless you know to hit F1, you won't be able to find it! The new interface sucks! Microsoft redesigned the user interface which means there is a learning curve, which is pretty steep. Talk to technical writers, people who really use all the features of a word processor and they will tell you they hate it!