Office.IRibbonUI.ActivateTabQ.md

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IRibbonUI.ActivateTabQ method (Office)	vbaof11.chm320006	vbaof11.chm320006	Office.IRibbonUI.ActivateTabQ	bf664b52-2660-2ce7-a01b-83b459f66e09	01/16/2019	medium

IRibbonUI.ActivateTabQ method (Office)

Activates the specified custom tab on the Microsoft Office Fluent Ribbon UI. Uses the fully qualified name of the tab, which includes the ID and the namespace of the tab.

Syntax

expression.ActivateTabQ (ControlID, Namespace)

expression An expression that returns an IRibbonUI object.

Parameters

Name	Required/Optional	Data type	Description
ControlID	Required	String	Specifies the Id of the custom Ribbon tab to be activated.
Namespace	Required	String	Specifies the namespace of the tab element.

Return value

Nothing

Example

The following code activates the qualified tab "test:MyTab". It assumes that you have defined the tab in the Ribbon definition file (customUI.xml) as follows. The subroutine that follows is called from the onLoad attribute of the <customUI> element in the customUI.xml file.

• xmlns:test="testnamespace"

• <tab idQ="test:MyTab">

Public myRibbon As IRibbonUI 
 
Sub OnLoad(ByVal control As IRibbonControl) 
 myRibbon.ActivateTabQ "MyTab", "testnamespace" 
End Sub

See also

• IRibbonUI object members

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