On the Home tab, click the Number Format dialog launcher in the bottom right corner of the Number group.

Way #2: Use the Number Format Dialog Launcher

On the Home tab, in the Number group, open the Number Format drop-down and choose More Number Formats at the bottom of the list.

Select the cell or cell range you want to format.

You can access the Format Cells dialog box via the Ribbon in the following ways: Way #1: Use the Number Format Drop-down Method #3: Use the Excel Ribbon to Open the Format Cells Dialog Box

Choose Format Cells on the shortcut menu that appears.

Select a cell or a cell range you want to format.

All that needs to be added is the button ID, the Screentip and the name of an onAction Sub procedure to run when the arrow is clicked.

This is a jumble, I agree, but all you really need to understand is the last 4 lines. Using the Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office, which you can get here, open your document’s ribbon XML The following shows the previous image’s XML layout How this is done is very simple: Edit the XML

This form gives access to all of the workbook’s options, including those reprsented by the checkboxes in the same grouping. What does it open? As you might guess from the Screentip, it is the main Options/Preferences form.

There is a Dialog Box Launcher for the Preferences group. The previous image is from an estimating workbook which I coded. Generally with VBA programming you will have a form whose input is central to the group’s “theme”. The first thing you need is a dialog box which you want to open with the Launcher. They are easy to setup on your own custom Ribbon… First Things First However, I did find those dialog boxes and more.īehind those little diagonal arrows at the lower right of many of the command groups are what Microsoft calls Dialog Box Launchers. Where was the Font or Page Setup dialog boxes? After all these years of working with the Ribbon, I still have to ask the “Tell me what you want to do?” query box for help. Many items had been resorted into other categories or simply hidden. If you were like me when the Ribbon menu first showed up in Office 2007 I was lost.

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