Office 2010

I love these new ribbons in Office.

I created a custom ribbon and moved it to the top of the tab list show it is the default tab that shows.
It has my most commonly used tasks in outlook (some of which normally require significant digging to get to).

I exported it in case anyone else is interested in it.

The true beauty is that the exported file is XML..woot!

So I can post it here.  Just save it to a notepad file and give it the extension .exportedUI
Then right click on any tab in outlook and choose customize.  At the bottom of the window, choose Import/Export, then Import.  Browse to the file and import it.


Here is the xml for it:

<mso:cmd app="olkexplorer" dt="1" />
<mso:customUI xmlns:mso="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui">
<mso:ribbon>
<mso:qat/>
<mso:tabs>
<mso:tab id="mso_c1.27D5463" label="David's Tab" insertBeforeQ="mso:TabMail">
<mso:group id="mso_c2.27D5463" label=" " autoScale="true">
<mso:control idQ="mso:NewMailMessage" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:NewAppointment" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:RulesAndAlerts" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:OutOfOffice" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:AllModuleNameItems" visible="true"/>
</mso:group>
<mso:group id="mso_c1.288DC28" label=" " autoScale="true">
<mso:control idQ="mso:SendReceiveAll" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:Reply" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:ReplyAll" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:Forward" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:Delete" visible="true"/>
</mso:group>
<mso:group id="mso_c1.287D94B" label=" " autoScale="true">
<mso:control idQ="mso:MarkAsRead" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:MarkAsUnread" visible="true"/>
</mso:group>
<mso:group id="mso_c2.288638F" label=" " autoScale="true">
<mso:control idQ="mso:CheckForUpdates" imageMso="GreenBall" visible="true"/>
<mso:control idQ="mso:ShowInConversations" visible="true"/>
</mso:group>
</mso:tab>
</mso:tabs>
</mso:ribbon>
</mso:customUI>


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More fun with SSRS

One of the nice things about Visual Studio is that you can set a default font for the controls and then as you drag them onto the form, the font is applied.

But what happens when you later want to adjust the default font size for the entire page, for instance?
Changes to the default do not flow down to the existing controls (Hint to MS, this would be a awesome feature to add!)

To handle this, you can open the report and choose View > Code, then do a find/replace on the elements I am targeting.  Don't try to scroll down and find the elements, since they are not necessarily listed in any logical order.

Someone should write a mass re-formatting tool for SRS that uses regex to find certain nodes and alter the structure for the new version.



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