Need help customizing ribbon in PowerPoint add-in

[david.f.jenkins]

[If this is a duplicate post, my apologies - had a crash at an
inopprtune time.}

Thanks to the great help in the PODA blog (http://proofficedev.com/
blog/2007/03/20/programmingcustomizing-the-excel-2007-ribbon-using-
vba/) I was able to create a trivial add-in and a custom ribbon tab
and group. Now I'm faced with beefing that up to apply to our own
application, and I'm stumped by a couple of issues:

1. Where are all the xml tags for the ribbon stuff defined?

2. This is more procedural, and I'm sure hoping there's a simple way
around this that I'm just not seeing: Once I've created my add-in .ppt
file, I save it as a .ppam. I open the .ppam in the Custom UI Editor,
and create the xml (is "RibbonX" what you call that flavor of xml?
I'm confused as to what "RibbonX" really is ...) As noted in the
blog, the slate is clean when I start, so I copy in some XML, save it,
and load the add-in - voila! the new tab, etc. are there! But here's
where I get wrapped around the axle: If I modify the .ppt file and
then re-save it as a .ppam with the same name as before, all the xml I
had in there is now gone. Is that the way it's supposed to work? If
so, then I would have to maintain the xml file in some tother editor
and copy it into the custom UI Editor each time I modify the .ppt file
- that doesn't seem right, does it? What am I missing?

Thanks ...

 

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| [If this is a duplicate post, my apologies - had a crash at an
| inopprtune time.}
|
| Thanks to the great help in the PODA blog (http://proofficedev.com/
| blog/2007/03/20/programmingcustomizing-the-excel-2007-ribbon-using-
| vba/) I was able to create a trivial add-in and a custom ribbon tab
| and group. Now I'm faced with beefing that up to apply to our own
| application, and I'm stumped by a couple of issues:
|
| 1. Where are all the xml tags for the ribbon stuff defined?
|
| 2. This is more procedural, and I'm sure hoping there's a simple way
| around this that I'm just not seeing: Once I've created my add-in .ppt
| file, I save it as a .ppam. I open the .ppam in the Custom UI Editor,
| and create the xml (is "RibbonX" what you call that flavor of xml?
| I'm confused as to what "RibbonX" really is ...) As noted in the
| blog, the slate is clean when I start, so I copy in some XML, save it,
| and load the add-in - voila! the new tab, etc. are there! But here's
| where I get wrapped around the axle: If I modify the .ppt file and
| then re-save it as a .ppam with the same name as before, all the xml I
| had in there is now gone. Is that the way it's supposed to work? If
| so, then I would have to maintain the xml file in some tother editor
| and copy it into the custom UI Editor each time I modify the .ppt file
| - that doesn't seem right, does it? What am I missing?
|
| Thanks ...

 

[david.f.jenkins]

What you are missing is the name and subject of this group - Outlook.

Sorry about that - severe finger check.