Microsoft Excel

Ron de Bruin
Excel Automation

Microsoft MVP Program

Galleries in the Ribbon in Excel 2007-2016

There are many controls that you can add to the Ribbon and one of them is a Gallery. On this page you can download a few example workbooks that are maybe useful if you want to create your own Gallery.

Before we start we first download the example workbooks :
Download the example workbooks

Note: If you are not familiar with the Custom UI Editor read the information on this page first.

Every example file will use RibbonX to create a custom tab on the Ribbon with a Gallery control. If you click on a picture or Label in the Gallery it will run the macro that belong to this picture or Label, read the comments in the VBA code good.

Picture Galleries

Note: The pictures (Laaf people) you see I made in this amusement park : http://www.efteling.com/

RDB Gallery Pictures 1

This file load every picture that is in the "Img" folder into the Gallery. The advantage of this is that it is easy to Add/Change/Remove pictures. In the VBA code we can Add/Change/Remove the Screen tips and the macros that you run if you click on a picture. There is no need to edit the RibbonX to do the things above.
Note: After you make the changes Save/close/Reopen the workbook to see them


RDB Gallery Pictures 2

In this example we can only change the macros in the VBA editor.If you want to Add/Change/Remove pictures and Screen tips you must edit the RibbonX. Note: The pictures are a part of the Excel file.

 

Label Galleries

RDB Gallery Labels 1

In this example we can change almost everything in the VBA editor.We can Add/Change/Remove Labels and Screen tips in the VBA code and Add/Change/Remove the macros that you run if you click on a label.
There is no need to edit the RibbonX to do the things above.
Note: After you make the changes Save/close/Reopen the workbook to see them


RDB Gallery Labels 2

In this example we can only Add/Change/Remove the macros that you run if you click on a label.
If you want to Add/Change/Remove Labels and Screen tips you must edit the RibbonX.