How to customise a ribbon tab to replicate the display of the home tab to improve the aesthetics (i.e. custom ribbon advanced settings)?

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How to customise a ribbon tab to replicate the display of the home tab to improve the aesthetics (i.e. custom ribbon advanced settings)?

Hadleys Reception 0

I have developed a custom ribbon tab in word that I would like to be essentially the same as the 'home' tab but with specific fonts/styles etc for our systems.

However when I generated the ribbon with the exact same commands as the home tab, the setup looks completely different (see screenshot below). Any ideas on how replicate the display of the home tab into my custom tab? Maybe ideas on how to make expandable menus for things like font and paragraph.

I have seen this be done before (not by me) so know it is somehow possible.

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AllenXu-MSFT 24,951 Reputation points Moderator

2023-06-26T06:51:50.2333333+00:00

Hi @Hadleys Reception,

As per my test, my custom new tab is the same as Home tab.

Only what I did is creating a new tab and adding commands to it under word options >> Customize Ribbon.

My Word version: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2306 Build 16.0.16529.20100) 64-bit

So, I want to check with your version so that I can try to reproduce this issue on my side.

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AllenXu-MSFT 24,951 Reputation points Moderator

2023-06-26T06:51:50.2333333+00:00

Hi @Hadleys Reception,

As per my test, my custom new tab is the same as Home tab.

Only what I did is creating a new tab and adding commands to it under word options >> Customize Ribbon.

My Word version: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2306 Build 16.0.16529.20100) 64-bit

So, I want to check with your version so that I can try to reproduce this issue on my side.

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Charles Kenyon 3,236 Volunteer Moderator

First, take a look at Customize the Ribbon - It Doesn't Take Rocket Science by Greg Maxey. To have a Ribbon Customization that is truly portable, you want to do it by XML modification.

To customize the styles shown you can use the [Manage Styles options]. You can also use [Quick] Style Sets.

You can add elements from the default Home Tab by choosing, instead of Commands, go directly to the Ribbon elements.

Customize Ribbon dialog

Again, though, I urge you to read Greg's page and do your customization in a custom template using XML. It is a bit of effort but well worth it.

AllenXu-MSFT 24,951 Reputation points Moderator

2023-06-29T01:48:29.61+00:00

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