Questions from a customUI newbie

[Cosmo]

It is possible to access the ribbon through VBA using the accessibility objects interface but it's pretty convoluted and if VBA is disabled anyway, that's not really going to help you.

Thanks, I'll look into that. It may do what I need (assUming I can access a specific ribbon element directly through a VBA macro), the issue is that I want to display a label when the macros are disabled. I cannot use the getVisible callbacks (since the value will be false when the macros are disabled, I could only set the visiblity true when they are enabled). If I could either make them invisible, or set their label to an empty string, through a macro, this may do what I need.

If you're using Excel there's an article in the KB here about prompting users to enable macros, but I don't know how you enforce it in other applications.

I'll check around to see if there's any other discussion of enforcing macros for Word.

Thanks again for all of your help.


Edit: 'convoluted' was a pretty accurate description. I found a demo which will select a specific element on the ribbon, and run it's action, but I'm having a hard time determining if it's possible to change their visibility or text, and if so, how to do it.