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We have a already designed Word ribbon bar and we have our own styles set. We have a ribbon bar button called 'Styles' and when click on it, Styles model dialog will pop-up. Now I need to create a non-model dialog to show the Styles as like as the the Word in-built Styles pane.

<dialogBoxLauncher > <button idMso="StylesPane" /> </dialogBoxLauncher>

Our product's final output is a .dll and a Word Ribbon bar (.dotm). Is it possible to overWrite the StylesPane iDMso to only show our Styles set within the task pane?

If can't, then . I have to create a custom task pane to hold those styles. I found this article on "Creating a custom task pane using VB6". But it is about Visual Basic AddIns.

I tried to find articles on web. But I was unable to find a good article.

It is really appreciated, if somebody can instruct what is need to do in this case.

Thank you.

Cindy Meister
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    research the concept of "repurposing ribbon xml commands". It is possible to use `onAction` to have a built-in command run other code, although I've never tried it with the scenario you propose. Custom Task Pane: should be possible if you're using IDTExtensibility2; research `IDTExtensibility2 VB6 COM Add-in custom task pane` although I don't find anything for VB6, only for .NET - the principles should be the same, however. – Cindy Meister Oct 23 '18 at 15:16

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