Hi, Laurent,

You can create your own customized Ribbon the easy way. The Ribbon is not a concept and/or feature created by SDL Trados. It is simply a feature originally from Microsoft. Any developer in Microsoft Windows can create applications with the look and feel of SDL Trados or memoQ which, by the way, makes extensive use of the Ribbon. Of course, that is something really complex, only for experienced developers. I prefer the cleaner and more consistent look (and Ribbon) of Studio, though. This feature will turn 10 years this year. It was initially released with Microsoft Office 2007.

Please, find information directly from Microsoft here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Customize-the-ribbon-in-Office-00f24ca7-6021-48d3-9514-a31a460ecb31

I would say, in general, nothing compares to Microsoft Windows usability and beauty. This Ribbon feature is also present at the operating level system. That, in plain English, means you can see it in action in the File Explore (Windows Key + E) where you can see two Ribbons: Computer and View, each one with its own sections.

I am attaching here a view of my customized Ribbon, which I called "My Workflow". I did not have to program anything or deal with APIs. It took me only a few minutes to create it. The beauty of it it's that your customized Ribbon is, as all Ribbons, "context-sensitive". By the way, you can create your own Ribbons in any Microsoft Office program: Word, Excel, etc.

It's actually fun playing with the Ribbon. Try it. I hope this information is useful for you and for other Studio users.

Now, if you are more into developing and coding take a look at this Microsoft page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386097.aspx I recall that the master object was called RibbonX, but that is probably no longer used. Everything is XML based.

Greetings!

Gene

Hi, Laurent,

You can create your own customized Ribbon the easy way. The Ribbon is not a concept and/or feature created by SDL Trados. It is simply a feature originally from Microsoft. Any developer in Microsoft Windows can create applications with the look and feel of SDL Trados or memoQ which, by the way, makes extensive use of the Ribbon. Of course, that is something really complex, only for experienced developers. I prefer the cleaner and more consistent look (and Ribbon) of Studio, though. This feature will turn 10 years this year. It was initially released with Microsoft Office 2007.

Please, find information directly from Microsoft here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Customize-the-ribbon-in-Office-00f24ca7-6021-48d3-9514-a31a460ecb31

I would say, in general, nothing compares to Microsoft Windows usability and beauty. This Ribbon feature is also present at the operating level system. That, in plain English, means you can see it in action in the File Explore (Windows Key + E) where you can see two Ribbons: Computer and View, each one with its own sections.

I am attaching here a view of my customized Ribbon, which I called "My Workflow". I did not have to program anything or deal with APIs. It took me only a few minutes to create it. The beauty of it it's that your customized Ribbon is, as all Ribbons, "context-sensitive". By the way, you can create your own Ribbons in any Microsoft Office program: Word, Excel, etc.

It's actually fun playing with the Ribbon. Try it. I hope this information is useful for you and for other Studio users.

Now, if you are more into developing and coding take a look at this Microsoft page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386097.aspx I recall that the master object was called RibbonX, but that is probably no longer used. Everything is XML based.

Greetings!

Gene