Word 2007/2010/2013: Enabling the Word Developer Tab on the ribbon (via: Andrew Coates ::: MSFT – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/16
This is one of the things I tend to forget, as you do it once per machine, and the place to do it is not logical to me.
I mainly use it to quickly record a Macro (boy, I wish Office had a TemporaryMacro feature like Visual Studio had. Alas no more: Macro Recording/Playback has been removed in Visual Studio 2012).
The logical place for me would be to have a context-menu on the ribbon where you can enable the Developer tab.
Anyway, this is how to enable the Developer tab in Word 2007/2010/2013:
Enabling the Word 2007 Developer Tab
One of the things that took me the longest to do when I was prepping for my OzFox Session was also one of the simplest – enabling the Developer tab in the Word 2007 ribbon.
The Developer tab […] allows you to do things that a Word developer might need to do, including adding content controls.
By default though, its not enabled.
To switch it on,
- choose Word Options from the Word Menu
- Make sure you’ve got the Popular group highlighted,
- and check the box that says “Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon”.
–jeroen
via: Enabling the Word 2007 Developer Tab – Andrew Coates ::: MSFT – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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