Questions from a customUI newbie

[Cosmo]

You cannot alter the Mac ribbon, nor can you use conditionals in the XML - you have to use callbacks.
I'm not sure about the contextual tabs and startFromScratch.

Edit: have a read of this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ContextualTabs

Cool, a quick glance looks like that is what I am looking for. Thanks.

For general Ribbon information, it is worth reading Ron de Bruin's Ribbon/QAT pages here: http://www.rondebruin.nl/win/section2.htm

Thanks for the link, I'll check that out later when I have time.

Another question: Is there a non-VBA way to display a dialog when one of my custom buttons is clicked? The user needs to allow macros to use my document, and if their security setting is set to disable all macros, I'd like to be able to give them an alert. I have doubts that this could be done within the xml, so alternately I may set a custom group that displays text alerting them to check their settings, along with a button to open the Macro Security settings.