Custom Tab Creator

An add-in for Microsoft Excel that builds custom ribbon tabs exactly the way you want them.

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  • Create your own custom tabs
  • Put all your favorite buttons on just one tab
  • Create dropdown menus — and add them to Excel's quick access toolbar
  • Create macro buttons with your own custom images

The Custom Tab Creator add-in for Microsoft Excel lets you create custom ribbon tabs just the way you want them, and it is completely menu-driven. Make your selection from over 1,200 Excel commands — far more than you can find in Excel. And if you have the Spreadsheet Assistant or any of our other add-ins, you can add buttons to run your favorite commands found in those products.

If you purchase the Spreadsheet Assistant ($29.95), you get the Custom Tab Creator for free.

“Now after having worked quite some time with your Custom Tab Creator (having set up quite a number of buttons/actions/dropdowns etc.) this tool is really great, helpful, and easy to handle!! Just wanted to let you know. Thanks and have a nice day.” — Rolf Mundinger

If you have written macros, you can add custom macro buttons using any image you want, even one you created yourself. The Custom Tab Creator provides access to thousands of images, not just the few available manually. There is also an option to add buttons or dropdown menu items that open your favorite files, folders, and even web pages.

The following is an example of a custom ribbon tab we created. It contains the buttons we frequently use, so that we seldom have to change to another ribbon tab:

An example custom ribbon tab built with the Custom Tab Creator
An example custom ribbon tab. Click to enlarge.

The Charts button on the above custom ribbon tab is actually a dropdown menu of our favorite charting buttons. When you explore the commands available to customize the ribbon tabs, you will find there are hundreds more Excel commands available through the Custom Tab Creator than you can find manually.

We have created custom ribbon tab dropdown menus with all the conditional select buttons on one dropdown, all the pivot table ones on another, and all the print-related buttons on another. We then added these dropdown menus to the quick access toolbar for really quick access.

If you use multiple PCs (portable, work desktop, and/or a home PC) or want to use the same custom ribbon tab you created on all the PCs, you can export the ribbon tab settings to an Excel workbook and then import it to your other PCs.

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