I would have to say that 34 does sound a tad overkill but I would think that there would be a lot of variability in how 'fast' a ribbon can load.

If your ribbon is completely static then it should load quickly but there are plenty of built-in ribbon functionality that is dynamic (eg varies with the selection). With the addition of many other templates to provide company and personal functionality you are increasing processing demands to some degree. If you have a lot of Get commands in your ribbon code then each one will be needing to RUN code to work out how to draw the ribbon button. That all takes processing time and potentially could slow down the PC responsiveness. Generally the time to process this is insignificant on modern machines but it isn't zero.

If the PC is fast at some times and slow at others then I would be looking towards other aspects of your machine to see where the processing power is going before digging too deeply into your ribbon code.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia