Ribbon Structure

• Aug 01, 2019

This section describes elements that define RibbonControl‘s structure.

• Ribbon Control

  This article will introduce to you all the regions and elements that typically make up the Ribbon UI.

• Page Categories and Contextual Pages

  The article that contains the overall information on Ribbon Categories - topmost objects that contain Ribbon Pages and affect their appearance.

• Pages

  Ribbon Pages are represented as tabs. End-users can click these tabs to view different commands, editors and galleries.

• Page Groups

  Each Ribbon Page can be structurally and visually split into multiple Page Groups. These groups are used to combine commands that have certain features in common.

• Quick Access Toolbar

  The Ribbon Quick Access Toolbar is a stripe above (or below) the Ribbon Control that is designed to provide end-users with one-click access to the most important and mostly used commands.

• Ribbon Status Bar

  An element that is typically drawn at the bottom of a window and displays status information, providing helpful feedback to end-users.