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In a Word .doc in compatibility mode I'm specifically looking to hook the Picture... button shown. This is an inline image.
It isn't idMso="PictureFormatDialog" and I've tried a few dozen likely guesses with no luck.
I'm sure my XML is valid since I can modify the behavior of any other control in ContextMenuInlinePicture.
Any ideas?
Thank you for contacting Microsoft Open Specifications Support. It appeared your question does not fall under guidelines outlined here in https://aka.ms/openspecs. I am removing [openspecs-office] tag from your post.
Never-the-less, I did find the list of idMSO for Word 2007 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/ms-customui/a9f90d73-6e69-4bb7-8e38-4f268cd42038 that might be what you are looking for?
Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support
The open specs for Word at https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-fluent-ui-command-identifiers are incomplete, are missing the entries for commands contained within ContextMenuInlinePicture!
You might want to point out to your team that there are 6 open issues and 0 closed ones, never answered in several years. Also, there's a broken link "Introduction to the Office Backstage View for Developers" in the README.md.
Thank you for pointing this out. I will find the team that owns and monitoring the issues posted under https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-fluent-ui-command-identifiers, and let them know there are issues out there that never got attended.
Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support
Here's the GitHub page where you can download the all the Fluent UI Control ID spreadsheets from Microsoft. You should be able to find the idMso in the wordcontrols file for your version of Office:
https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-fluent-ui-command-identifiers
Still can't figure out what the idMso is for this particular control in ContextMenuInlinePicture. I tried a bunch with no luck. I notice that commands within each context menu are listed, but commands for ContextMenuInlinePicture are missing. I think whoever prepared the spreadsheet assumed that ContextMenuPicture & ContextMenuInlinePicture would be the same, but it isn't so.
There are often gaps in either the VBA object model (a command that should be there, is not) or documentation of the object model (the command is there, but nothing is written about it). You should try developing for Office for Mac, it's a nightmare!
I went to the source code directly. I found the following entry.
<Tcid Name="msotcidCtxUIInlinePicture">
<Comment>
</Comment>
<NameX>ContextMenuInlinePicture</NameX>
<Rights>Never</Rights>
</Tcid>
Hence, I think the answer you are looking for would be "msotcidCtxUIInlinePicture" Let me know if this helped.
Hung-Chun Yu
Microsoft Open Specifications Support
Oh, that just felt right, but doesn't work!! Also tried ContextMenuInlinePicture with same results.
Here's what I tried:
<contextMenu idMso="ContextMenuInlinePicture">
<control idMso="msotcidCtxUIInlinePicture" visible="false" />
</contextMenu>
I suspect the source code you found is for the context menu itself. Could you please look in there again to see if you can find the Picture... entry inside of that? Thanks!
The Picture command on the Inline Picture right-click menu has the command ID 2327.
Where do you want to add this command?
Actually, I want to hide it for certain types of images. How would I use this Ribbon xml? For a number of messy reasons I'd really rather not use CommandBars to hook this.
I was afraid you were referring to ribbon customization. :-)
I don't know if you can use command IDs with ribbon XML.
You can use VBA to remove a command from a context menu, though. The modification will be saved in the Normal template, or the template you choose.
See Greg Maxey's page: http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/customize_shortcut_menu.html
Here is one possibility to remove the command from the Inline Picture context menu using VBA:
Sub RemoveParticularControl()
'Created by Stefan Blom, MVP, October 2022
Dim c As CommandBarControl
CustomizationContext = NormalTemplate
Set c = CommandBars("Inline Picture").FindControl(ID:=2327)
If c Is Nothing Then
Exit Sub
Else
c.Delete
End If
End Sub
While you could completely hide the icon, it's considerably easier to simply disable it when a selected image is not the right type. To do this, you'll have to use a getEnabled command in the XML for the Inline Image button. That getEnabled command will link to a macro that uses the WindowSelectionChange event.
The way this works is that the event listener checks the selection every time it changes. When it runs this check, it gets whether the selected item is a picture. Then, if it is, it looks for the picture type. If the picture type is correct, then getEnabled status for the icon is changed, disabling it for wrong picture types and enabling it for the ones you want.
There's a learning curve for this. Searching on Word ribbon getenabled and Word WindowSelectionChange event will get you pages that explain the process in detail.
Yep, that's roughly my plan... but to do so I'm trying to find the mso of the Picture... entry in ContextMenuInlinePicture so that I can stick a getEnabled on it. That's the big challenge!
That can be: ChartStylesGallery
