VSTO 3.0 and Outlook Ribbon Development

[RexCelestis]

Hello every one,

I am looking to remove a few controls from the Outlook Ribbon using VS2008 and VSTO 3.0. Using an XML resource file I can remove groups and tabs with the syntax:

[codebox]<group idMso="GroupInsertTables" visible="false"></group>[/codebox]

However

[codebox]<button idMso="PictureInsertFromFile" visible="false"></button>[/codebox]

Does not remove an individual button from a group. My first question, then: Is it possible to remove a single button from a default group? If so, how?

If it is not possible to remove single buttons from default groups, I suppose I could build new custom groups to mimic the behavior of the default groups. How does one control the order of groups on a ribbon?

Thanks for the help,

Rex

[RexCelestis]

I discovered the "insertBeforeMso" tag to answer my second question. Any help on the first?

Thanks,
Rex

[Gary Frieder]

Rex,

Am just learning this stuff myself, so not an authoritative answer, but from playing around with this (in Word/Custom UI Editor), it looks like you can make an entire built-in Ribbon group not visible, but can't do that for an individual element in the group: when I try to do so for an individual element, when I re-open the document, I get a Custom UI Runtime Error Message box, that says in part: "Controls in a built-in group cannot be modified".

Hiding the default group and substituting your own custom one (using those built-in controls you want to keep) may be the way to go.

Gary