The Ribbon is a way to organize related commands (in the form of controls) so that they are easier to find. You can customize the Ribbon UI to expose functionality that you add to applications in Office. For more information about custom task panes, see Custom task panes. Compared to a Ribbon group, actions panes and custom task panes provide a much larger area to include text and controls.įor more information about actions panes, see Actions pane overview. Users can dock custom task panes to different sides of the application window, or they can drag custom task panes to any location in the window.Īctions panes and custom task panes provide functionality by hosting a variety of controls to help users with tasks such as data entry. You can add a custom task pane to a VSTO Add-in. However, the actions pane can also be displayed to the left, top, or bottom of the document. By default, the actions pane is displayed on the right side of the application, to the right of the document.
You can add an actions pane to a document-level customization. The Office development tools in Visual Studio provide two different ways to customize task panes: An example of a task pane is the Help task pane in Word. Almost all Microsoft Office applications include built-in task panes. Task panes are user interface panels that are typically docked to one side of a window in a Microsoft Office application. The following table compares the main UI features that you can customize in Microsoft Office projects. This topic describes the UI features that you can customize in the following sections: You can customize the user interface (UI) of Microsoft Office applications by using the Office developer tools in Visual Studio.
Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code