Hey folks -

Ran into a template that has a customized toolbar in the "Add-In" Section of the Ribbon.

I'm attempting to understand what the author of this was doing - and trying to decipher what the commands do. But my first step to this is for me to figure out where this custom ribbon was made and how. I'm having a tough time with that after much self-research.

Below is a screenshot of the menu I am referring to (just for context).


Things I have tried to figure out editing this:

1. Go into developer/VBA and took out all VBA content. The custom ribbon still remains with all buttons (they are just broken since the methods they called are no longer there).

2. Went into MS Word Options - specifically File -> Options -> Customize Ribbon.

This shows me nothing really helpful - and upon trying to add a command to the Custom Toolbar it gives me the following error message: "Commands need to be added to custom groups. To create a custom group, pick a tab in the list, then click New Group"... Which is hilarious because it's literally called "Custom Toolbar"


3. Looked in the Add-in Sections - not seeing anything. Again this is a FLAT .dotm file. I was emailed this file and this file alone and if you open it on another computer the custom toolbar still loads with it.

4. Lastly, I downloaded/installed Office Custom UI for building ribbons and told it to open this dotm. When I opened it, it didn't seem to act as if anything was built for it previously. I was really hoping this was my answer was hidden XML - but, alas, if it has nothing to open then I guess that isn't the answer?



So at this point I'm rather confused - where did the author create these? And how can I edit them?