I am trying to modify a ribbonon a new macro enabled template I am creating in Word 2016 . I created a new tab and added a number of macro buttons and it is working fine. I just used the customise ribbon option to create the new tab.

I decided the symbols that were available did not work for me so did some digging and found I can create my own images (100x100px) and use them. I need to just replace the images in the xml file.

Now I can start an xml file from scratch and attach it to the template, but since I have about a dozen commands on the tab, thought it would be easier to use an existing xml file for the tab I created. Problem is, I don't know where to get to the xml file I created, or even if there is one.

If I customise the ribbon using the right click command, is an xml file created which I can modify?

I looked at the export option which produced an xml looking file. Dropped it into Custom UI editor for Microsoft Office and it just displays as a bunch of text. Will not parse.

Would appreciate any help on this.