Adding buttons to custom tab

**mat.davies** · 01-12-2012, 10:50 AM

Hi

I have an add-in that creates a custom tab on the ribbon. A few of the buttons load other add-ins, I would like for these to be able to add buttons to my custom tab, however all attempts to do this result in either i) a new tab on the ribbon or ii) nothing. Any ideas?

Cheers

Mat

**pike** · 01-13-2012, 05:03 AM

Hi Mat.davies
welcome to the forum!
Do you mean the ribbon?
Andy has a good ribbon designer here
http://www.andypope.info/vba/ribboneditor.htm
What is the code?

**Andy Pope** · 01-13-2012, 05:33 AM

If you want to share a custom tab you need to use the Namespace and idQ referencing.

**mat.davies** · 01-13-2012, 05:40 AM

Hi Pike, thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, I was referring to the ribbon. The editor you sent looks interesting, but I dont have admin access to the PC to install it, and I'm not sure it can do what i'm after.

I've tried quite a bit of code, in the 1st workbook, customui.xml, i have

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The macro 'dostuff' then loads a second file, it's the xml in this file that i'm not sure of. I've tried variations around the following

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where the macro 'domorestuff' is in the second addin. This doesn't work. I have tried playing around with the <tab> and <group> tags, and tried calling the name as a tabMSO, which doesn't work.

Thanks again,

Mat

**mat.davies** · 01-13-2012, 06:01 AM

Cheers andy, I've figured out what is needed, will post the correct code once I've got it working!

Mat

**mat.davies** · 01-13-2012, 06:28 AM

Working xml for customui.xml in both files...

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Code shown adds a new group, but I imagine it's fairly straightforward to add buttons to an existing group, (although I haven't tried)

Thanks again to everyone who replied!

Mat