What, files that are inside a Excel file? Excel 2007-2016 files are really zip files so if you change the extension to zip and open the file in your zip program you see that there are a few folders and a file inside the zip.

The Custum UI Editor gives you an option to insert a customUI.xml file in your Excel workbook that loads when you open the file in Excel 2007-2016 and/or a customUI14.xml file that only loads when you open the Excel workbook in Excel 2010-2016. Note:The information below assume you develop on a Windows machine If you want to insert RibbonX into a Excel workbook to change the Ribbon, then I suggest you download and install the free Custom UI Editor to make this a lot easier: Note: If the link is broken you can also the Custom UI Editor from my site. I suggest that if you want to develop custom Ribbons you develop in Windows and then test it on the Mac. Note: If you are a Excel for Windows user start here: Things we must do and understand before we start Important: The easiest way to insert RibbonX in a Excel file is to do it on a Windows machine. Follow Gregg on Twitter at or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed .Change the Ribbon in Mac Excel 2016 Note: Update Mac Office 2016 first and be sure it is 15.17 or higher, in the 15.17 update Ribbon customization via Ribbon XML is enabled by default for all customers. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. 'We think that Office 2011 for Mac is the definitive version of Office for the Mac,' said Shaw. Other than the Ribbon, Microsoft's video also featured the suite's new template gallery and the revised e-mail client - to be dubbed Outlook to match the name in the Windows versions of Office - that will include a new view to collect all messages in a thread for easier reading and handling. Microsoft has not set a shipping timetable for Office 2011 for Mac, although it has promised to release the suite in time for this year's holiday sales season.

'Oh, no!! That horrible ribbon is coming to Mac!! Save the women and children first!' wrote 'Jaime R' in a comment to a similar story on the Cult of Mac blog. 'Kinda weird that they talk about the ribbon like it's an UI achievement,' said someone identified only as 'ihxo' in a comment added to a story published by AppleInsider earlier Wednesday.

Those complaints kept rolling in today after Microsoft posted its video of Shaw and others discussing Office 2011.

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