Hi, everyone! Thanks very much to the person who wrote to point this out to me. It seems that when the above-referenced article was posted online, some manual line breaks accidentally made it into the snippets of markup and VBA code that you can copy.

Hopefully, that will be corrected soon - but copying those snippets as is will result in errors that won't let your customUI appear in the document to which you add it. Following is a download and instructions to easily get you the corrections:

(You can also see in the following download that I corrected a typo as well in the initial piece of markup - the paired 'ribbon' tag needs a lowercase R. So, if you copy and edit the markup from the article instead of using the download that follows, do make that change for yourself.)

Download a Word document that contains the initial corrected snippets (as well as the initial customUI correctly added to the document).

For later snippets in the article not included in the download, or if you prefer to copy snippets from the article as it currently is, just remove any manual line breaks that fall in the middle of a tag (that is, line breaks that fall between paired angle brackets <>) after you paste the markup into your file. Manual line breaks can't appear in the middle of a tag.

Thanks everybody! ... and Happy Saturday!

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Hi, everyone! Lots of new content to share with you - most of which focuses on advanced users who want to take Office documents further using VBA and\or Office Open XML ... all of this content is part of a larger effort from MSFT that's going to include a really fun contest called Office Palooza -- and I'll be blogging more about Office Palooza (which starts tomorrow!!) very soon ... Meanwhile, here are some new articles from me that I hope you find useful:

Note that most of these new articles are hosted on the wonderful MSDN Office Developer Center (where you can find an awesome amount of resources!) ... the only exception is the first article below, which also happens to be my first article for the very excellent TechNet Magazine. So ... please check them all out!

On Office Open XML:

A Guide to Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon

Using Office Open XML to Customize Document Formatting in the 2007 Office System

Getting More from Document Themes in the 2007 Office System with Office Open XML

Using Office Open XML to Save Time Without Writing Code

On VBA:

Troubleshooting Word 2007 Documents More Easily Using VBA

Using VBA to Access Document Content in the 2007 Office System

Using VBA to Control Built-In Commands in the 2007 Office System

Using VBA to Format Long Documents in the 2007 Office System in a Fraction of the Time

Extending Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 with a Single Line of VBA Code

On both or other Office topics:

Taking the 2007 Office System Further with VBA and Open XML Formats

Exploring the Dynamic World of Word 2007

Top 10 Reasons to Learn More About SharePoint Products and Technologies

... The Office Developer Center on MSDN has also published a couple of new excerpts from my Office 2007 Book - Advanced Documents Inside Out ... You can find more info on that book at the my books link at left ... and you can now read the introductions to both the VBA and Open XML primers from that book here:

Chapter 22: Office Open XML Essentials (partial chapter excerpt)

Chapter 21: VBA Primer (partial chapter excerpt)

... and don't go far - I'll be posting more links to more new content over the next few weeks as well ...

Meanwhile, Happy Sunday everybody! (or Happy Monday, depending on what part of the world you're in :)

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