The "third-party company" is a student, Patrick Schmid, who is also an MVP.
He has put in over a year of work and research in learning to use Ribbon UI.
And $30 is a darn good price for something you need/want. Or you could
become as adept at Ribbon UI as you are at VBA and write an app yourself.
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"Larry" wrote in message
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But as has been mentioned, there is software which will allow you to
customize the Ribbon, move or delete groups, move or delete an entire tab,
and so on. MS doesn't provide this with Word, you have to pay a
third-party
company $30 for it.