How to Build a Custom Ribbon in Excel

Using XML and VBA

Andrew Moss
CodeX
Published in
15 min readJan 25, 2021

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Microsoft’s ribbon interface has been with us since the launch of Office 2007. Although met with mixed reaction, over time many acknowledged it was a viable replacement for the ageing bland menus we had become accustomed to.

Microsoft developed the ribbon to increase user awareness of what was nested within each Office product. It was said that

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