Edit Ribbon Microsoft Outlook
We’re going to show you how to do this using Outlook, but the same instructions apply to all the Microsoft Office apps. As an example, we’re going to add a new button to the Home tab in the Outlook ribbon to create a new email in plain text. Right-click on any of the tabs in the ribbon bar, and select “Customize The Ribbon.”. After recent updates, the ribbon in Microsoft Outlook can take up to 1/3 of the available screen space. Microsoft Office help tells that you can hide or unhide your ribbon, but you cannot reduce the size of your ribbon, or size of the text or the icons. You can change the mode and remove unnecessary white space around buttons, and, thus, reduce the ribbon size.
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Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement displays commands in different ways depending on the entity and the client. In most places in the web application you will see a command bar instead of a ribbon. Dynamics 365 for tablets also uses data defined as ribbons to control what commands are available using a command bar that is optimized for touch.
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The command bar provides better performance. The ribbon is still displayed in the web application for certain entity forms and it is still used for list views in Dynamics 365 for Outlook.
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Both the command bar and the ribbon use the same underlying XML data to define what commands to display, when the commands are enabled, and what the commands do.
The topics in this section introduce you to key concepts that you must understand, and common tasks you perform when you customize the command bar or the ribbon.
Note
Because the underlying XML schema was designed to display commands as ribbons, the term ribbon will continue to be used in the documentation.
The SDK describes the process of editing the ribbon by editing the customization.xml file directly. The most frequently used tool created by the community is the Ribbon Workbench
To obtain support or help to use this program, contact the program publisher.
