Hi to all RibbonX Experts,

I'd like to add the "Document Property" button to a user-defined ribbon. I do not want the label ("Document Property") to be displayed, only the button.

As the 'Document Properties' are accessible via build-in Controls, I added the lines:
Result: the icon is display with label -> why? Hovering with the mouse over the button displays the label.

The only way I found to suppress the label is to set it to a single space
Result: the icon is displayed without label (= space), but hovering with the mouse over the button shows (of course) the empty label.

I tried adding "screentip" and "supertip", but nothing changes: an empty rectangle appears when hovering over the icon.

I 'simply' want the icon to be displayed without label but with additional information on hovering.

'showLabel' does not seems to work correctly with "gallery idMso": with "gallery idMso="BreaksGallery" I also failed with "showLabel="false"", but succeeded with label=" ", the BreaksGallery icon is displayed without text but with additional info.

So I simply can't find a reliable approach. What's wrong with my approach?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks NP

I am not a RibbonX expert but only a dabbler. The person who answers questions about the Ribbon the most is Greg Maxey. He does respond to questions here and may see yours. In the meantime, here is a link to his lead page on Ribbon modification:
Customize the Ribbon (It doesn't take rocket science)

The book that I use is RibbonX: Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon - by Robert Martin, Ken Puls, and Theresa Hennig and that is where I would be looking for an answer.

I am assuming that you are working directly with the XML and not using the ribbon modification in the Word user interface for your work.

Apparently you need to display the button in normal size to hide the label.
<gallery idMso="PropertyInsert" size="normal" showLabel="false"/>

The book that Charles pointed you at discusses this particular idiosyncrasy and suggests the very same workaround that you arrived at anyway.

Thanks for your answers.

Quote:

I am assuming that you are working directly with the XML and not using the ribbon modification in the Word user interface for your work.

That's right and - funny enough - when modifing the ribbon via UI, the icon is displayed without label but with 'hovering text' - exactly the way it should.


Unfortunately size="normal" doesn't make any difference. The label is still displayed. .

NP

Suggestion:
Modify it through the UI and examine the XML in the customization file that is produced. Use that in your custom template. That is how I would dabble my way through this.

Hi Charles,

that's exactly what I did first. But some Word gallery controls behave differently in UI and own XLM file - strange ...

NP

I tried exporting through the UI and got to see the showInRibbon=false setting.

Initially I think I saw the gallery with no title but later it appeared with the title so I am wondering what I saw now.

I am wondering if this has been fixed in the subsequent versions of Word. Have you tried the schemas for each of 2007/2010/2013?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Hi,

Right, so I tried with exported
Result:
<gallery idMso="BreaksGallery" showLabel="false"/> and <gallery idMso="SymbolInsertGallery" showLabel="false"/> still display the label (as I almost expected).
<gallery idMso="BreaksGallery" label=" "/> and <gallery idMso="SymbolInsertGallery" label=" "/> both supress the label, but still display text when hovering over the icons - other than gallery idMso="PropertyInsert".

So I can’t see any scheme to follow …


No, just 2010.

NP