RibbonX For Dummies [Paperback]

John Paul Mueller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2007 | ISBN-10: 047016994X | ISBN-13: 978-0470169940 | Edition: 1

Includes coding examples and sample conversion programs!


Create VBA, VB.NET, and C# custom applications with this radical new interface

Are you ready to tackle RibbonX? This friendly, plain-English guide gives you the tips and techniques you need to design and implement Ribbon apps fast, as well as plenty of examples for working in VBA and Visual Studio(r). You'll customize the Ribbon to meet your needs, create new elements, and even find solutions for pre-existing Office apps!

* Create an effective RibbonX design
*

Write RibbonX apps
*

Develop business applications for Office
*

Work with Web services
*

Convert existing toolbars and macros

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Includes coding examples and sample conversion programs!

Create VBA, VB.NET, and C# custom applications with this radical new interface

Are you ready to tackle RibbonX? This friendly, plain-English guide gives you the tips and techniques you need to design and implement Ribbon apps fast, as well as plenty of examples for working in VBA and Visual Studio®. You'll customize the Ribbon to meet your needs, create new elements, and even find solutions for pre-existing Office apps!

• Create an effective RibbonX design

• Write RibbonX apps

• Develop business applications for Office

• Work with Web services

• Convert existing toolbars and macros

About the Author

John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 74 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads-down programming. Some of his current books include a Windows power optimization book, a book on .NET security, and books on Amazon Web Services, Google Web Services, and eBay Web Services. His technical editing skills have helped over 52 authors refine the content of their manuscripts. John has provided technical editing services to both DataBased Advisor Magazine and Coast Compute magazines. He’s also contributed articles to magazines like CIO.com, DevSource, InformIT, Informant, DevX, SQL Server Professional, Visual C++ Developer, Hard Core Visual Basic, asp.netPRO, Software Test and Performance, and Visual Basic Developer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 404 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (August 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047016994X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470169940
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 87 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads down programming. His most recent book is "Windows Command Line Administration Instant Reference" (Sybex, ISBN: 978-0-470-65046-2). His technical editing skills have helped over 52 authors refine the content of their manuscripts. You can reach John on the Internet at [e-mail] and his Web site at: http://www.mwt.net/~jmueller/.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for Office 2007 ribbonX menus, September 3, 2009

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P. L. Bornmann "PatB" (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RibbonX For Dummies (Paperback)

Office 2007 no longer allows VBA users to create menus as done in prior versions. This is the only book I know that discusses how to create menus for the Office Ribbon. The book gives functional XML examples that were critical for this task.

After several introductory chapters, there are chapters for Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access, and Web. The final chapters discuss converting old menus to ribbon - not a trivial task. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to create a user interface to VBA macros for Office 2007 users.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars RibbonX For Dummies, October 26, 2010

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Turhan Yildiz (LITTLETON, CO, US) - See all my reviews

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It is not well organized. Examples are not well explained. Lots of repetitions. Referral to book's web site is done over and over and over again. It is not worthy to purchase.

1.0 out of 5 stars Some good things, many not so good, May 26, 2011

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This review is from: RibbonX For Dummies (Paperback)

I am a programmer with a special interest in RibbonX for Access 2007. I have developed hundreds of applications, and even games using previous versions of Access, SQL, DAO, ADO, and VBA. I had hoped to kick off another journey in my long career by learning something about RibbonX. But the first 86 pages of the book, RibbonX for Dummies, were pure jibberish. The content jumped around too much, displayed figures for subject matter that wasn't discussed until pages afterwards, launched into subject matter without preamble or thorough explanation, and only deepened my confusion about RibbonX. The book should have been named, RibbonX Written By Dummies. I only read 86 pages because I kept thinking that it couldn't possibly continue this badly. But this isn't the first time I've been wrong.