PowerPoint ribbon updates

Key Takeaways

[Music] my name is lion um today i'm gonna be talking about some new and exciting uh powerpoint ribbon updates that uh we're gonna be pushing out so just a quick recap these are gonna be available really soon so probably within the next week on office online and we are gonna be doing a fast follow on desktop and mac and around the may time frame we're just finishing up um coding this quarter so um that's kind of accounting for roll out time so the features i'm going to be talking about today going to be allowing native controls in your ribbon being able to set your tab location to any location you want and then also being able to set focus to that particular tab so i'll go into that in a little bit more detail shortly um and then we also have some docs available right now so they are marked with preview but um it is gaining very soon so uh these are all going to be accomplished through the manifest so we're going to be essentially extending um app commands um or the the node within your manifest and from here you can designate the location you can designate whether you want to be importing any um any custom controls and i will show a quick demo of that at the end so for the first feature for native buttons um what this means is that you can now directly take any chunk from within the native ribbon and actually port that into your your own ribbon and you can mix and mingle those with your existing add-in controls so we support both taking a whole group so we can take paragraphs or you can also take a single control like bold and then you can kind of mix and mingle those two together so and the manifest will be introduced into new elements and there will be a lookup table where you will be able to find the mapping of each control and group to their relevant ids we don't um allow you to so yeah let's go something with restrictions if you import a a whole group um we don't allow you to take out a specific button or um alter that group in any way so if you import that that uh that comes entirely and if you are using any enable disable apis these will not work on the native buttons um so a lot of them are contextual so for example like bold that would be disabled until you highlight text and any um any controls that have that will obey their native instructions and you won't be able to actually control those uh so the second one is placement so as you may know right now for tabs um if you insert uh an add-in the tab will default right to the end um so kind of at the so you can see script lab here um what this does is you can now insert that tab anywhere you want um in between native tabs so i can say um insert after or insert before um so if we have an insert before tap home it'll go here so it'll go between file and home um for this if we have any collisions so if multiple add-ins want to be inserted in the same location um the it'll be resolved by installation order so um the last installed add-in will take that location and it'll just push all the other add-ons down and what happens also is that we will take the natural order of the tab and what that means is that if the user goes and um right clicks and goes to runner manager and say i move my home tab down to the end of the line if you specify hey i want to insert before tab home we will take the natural order so we will we will take the order of home being near the near the front um so kind of unaltered and the last one is focus so what this means is just like when you open up a document for the first time you'll see the ribbon default over to home you can now your adam can now do this so if you actually insert your add-in before the home tab if the user closes that document and opens it again the tab will automatically open to your add-in tab um just like it would do natively and just quickly for fallback options so if it isn't um if the user is on a version of office that isn't that doesn't support this feature um we will ignore the elements so we will just pass the parts of the ribbon that we understand for that version and you can also opt out of this by specifying the requirement set in which case your adam will not show up for that version of office um and then just a quick demo so i have a manifest open here as you can see um i have my extension point i have an insert before tap home and then i just have a bunch of native controls here and i've sign loaded the ad in here so you can see so i have my contoso add-in um you'll notice that this tab is in between fall and home and i have a bunch of negative controls here that i have mix and mingle together that's the end of the demo really excited and looking forward to everyone trying this thank you lillian