by on March 11, 2009 Leave a Comment

Creative Commons Add-In for Office Inserts Open Licenses Easily [Downloads]

Windows only: Microsoft’s Creative Commons Add-in for Office licenses your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with an easy drop-drop menu—so you can set the appropriate license in a couple of clicks. Once installed, the add-on is extremely easy to use—just check the new Creative Commons tab on the Ribbon if you are using Office 2007 (or the File menu for earlier versions), select New License, and then follow the wizard to specify your licensing terms—the appropriate Creative Commons license will be available on the menu to insert. We've mentioned this utility before , but it's since updated with support for Office 2007—making this worth a look for anybody publishing documents on a regular basis

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Creative Commons Add-In for Office Inserts Open Licenses Easily [Downloads]

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by on January 28, 2009 Leave a Comment

Making a Custom Ribbon Appear Only for a Custom Outlook Form

Many of you have posted questions to the VSTO Forum about how to make custom tabs, groups and controls appear only in cases where the user opens a custom form in Outlook. The reason why that is difficult to accomplish is because there is no way to specify the names of custom forms in the Ribbon Designer. You can only specify inspector window types

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Making a Custom Ribbon Appear Only for a Custom Outlook Form

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by on May 29, 2007 Leave a Comment

Classic Menus for Office 2007 – For Those Who Do Not Like Change

I love Office 2007′s Ribbon menu system as it has made my efforts to author spreadsheets, documents, and presentations less painful. Granted it did take about 2-3 hours total to become accustomed to how the Ribbon switches to present buttons specifically related to the task I want to accomplish (i.e. formatting a table, working with data, etc.).
 
The only time I really became frustrated was the first time I tried to create a Pivot Table in Excel. In previous Excel versions, Pivot Table commands resided in the Data menu of the main Menu Bar. Office 2007 has a Data panel on the Ribbon. I must have spent 15 minutes looking for anything Pivot Table related on the Ribbon’s data pane before I became enraged enough to consider other options.
 
That’s when I took a look at the Insert pane and found the Insert Pivot Table button. Whatever….I still like the Ribbon. Overall it is a superior design to previous Office menu versions.
 
I know not everyone agrees. I know many don’t like the Ribbon. I know that, even further, some simply hate the Ribbons. I am sure there are many reasons for this but I am sure they will all boil down to the fact it forces you to change and learn a new way of doing things. I know, I know! Change is hard and sometimes scary but when it comes to the new Ribbon you now have a choice.
 
If you think the Ribbon is horrible or so frustrated that you find yourself rocking in the fetal position underneath the desk in your cubicle, repeating to yourself, "If only they had left the damn Data menu the same!" over and over again….then I suggest you check out Classic Menus from Addintools.com.
 
This add-in will embed the Office classic menus onto new Ribbon pane appropriately named Menu.
 
I don’t use it but the screenshots look like this tool just might be a winner for those of you that see absolutely nothing wrong with keeping things they way the are (even if the new way might be teensy weensy bit more productive).
 
I’m just saying.

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