Re: Access 2007: Allow customizing height of ribbon

Thanks for the feedback Norman, I'll pass this information along to the
appropriate teams.

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"Norman Simoneau from ProSo.Net" wrote in message:
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I think the controls should resize automatically based on the height of the
ribbon.
Customizing the ribbon as a whole would be useful.
Here are some ideas:
1) Allow the ribbon to be sized to a specific height (auto resize
controls.)
2) Allow the ribbon to be hidden to a new box located with the min/max
close
buttons on the top right of the window. (Perhaps a little box with a
picture
of a ribbon to the left of the minimize button. There's plenty of space
near
those buttons.)
3) Allow the ribbon to be minized to extend with the window close,
min/max
buttons. This would work as an extention to the existing windows buttons:
now only min/max and close. There is space there that is now often blank
and
would be great to program a ribbon in that position of the screen.

4) Create an editor to edit the ribbon without code; however, allow
extending it through programming.

5) Ultimately the ribbon could be extended to completely include all of
the
features of the MS Access controls (IE combobox, textbox, etc..) and allow
it
to function completely in XML.

6) It is very important that the ribbon be controlled through code (for
developers)and through the interface (for users & developers.) Extending
this functionality will enable the XML interface to replace the existing
Access form based interface in a couple of versions forward. (Hopefully
the
next version. :) )

7) Thank you!


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