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How-to enable the Developer tab in the Ribbon bar

  • Artigo

I am a new user to Office 2007 (Beta 2) and I am having fun discovering things around. If you already downloaded the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 and you are ready to start experimenting with Office, here is a nice trick related to the very cool Ribbon bar.

The Ribbon provides a Developer tab that groups a set of commands related to Office programmability and extensibility. The following figure shows the Developer Ribbon (Word 2007).

Developer tab in the Ribbon UI

By default, the Developer tab is disabled. Why? My personal guess: Regular end-users don't know about Office programmability and extensibility, so they might never use the Developer tab. On the other hand, developers are a different set of users that have a completely distinct way of working with programs, solving problems, and discovering things. Developers have a great research spirit and will easily find how-to enable the Developer tab. Here's how...

To show the Developer tab

  1. Open a 2007 Office System application, for example Word 2007.

  2. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.

  3. In the Top options for working with Word section of the Word Options dialog box, click Personalize.

  4. Select Show Developer tab in the Ribbon, as shown in the next figure.

  5. Click OK.

    The Word Options dialog box

    Note   When you are in developer mode, you see the Developer tab in the Ribbon UI.

Once you get this running and start playing around, the next step is to start researching about extending the Ribbon. You can extend the Ribbon to show custom tabs and command chunks. The new Ribbon page inside MSDN contains great resources (blogs, videos, articles and downloads) that will allow you to get started with extending the Ribbon.

Don't miss Frank's articles and blog, he is a great writer and will be sharing more on extending the Ribbon with you guys.

Customizing the Office (2007) Ribbon User Interface for Developers (Part 1 of 2)

Customizing the Office (2007) Ribbon User Interface for Developers (Part 2 of 2)

Have fun with the Beta,

-Erika

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2006
    Pour tout ce qui qui veulent avoir l'onglet "Developer" sous Word 2007, Erika Ehrli vient de poster,...

  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2006
    Hi,

    I was able to get the developer tab but i didn't see the record macro button there. I am using Office 2007 (powerpoint) Beta 2.

    regards,

    Pavan

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2006
    Hi Pavan,

    I tried it myself and you are right, this looks like a bug. I will report this to the PPT team.

    Thanks for reporting this issue :).

  • Anonymous
    June 20, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2010
    I want to manipulate a form developed in Word 2003, which I used to be able to type in areas which were not fields, by 'unlocking' the form. When I open it in Word 2007, I can't find an option to do that.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2010
    Excellent! just was looking for thank you very much! :)

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    July 19, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2012
    Brilliant help! Straight to the point Thanks

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2013
    hi this one is the nice post. You can a video tutorial for this procedure in following link www.youtube.com/watch