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RibbonX For Dummies

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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.

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.

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.