You can easily customize the design of the Ribbon at design time using the smart designers. This topic shows how to modify the design of the Ribbon using the Hide/Show Ribbon Items designer.

Complete the following steps:

1. Using your mouse pointer, hover over the Ribbon and click the smart designer tag . This enables Ribbon floating toolbar:
   
2. From the main floating toolbar, click the Hide/show Ribbon items button . The tree-based designer appears:
   
3. From the Hide/Show Ribbon Items designer, you can simply deselect the check box to remove objects from the Ribbon. For this example, deselect the following object: View [RibbonTab].
   Notice that the tab has been removed from the Ribbon. You can easily add the tab back to the Ribbon by selecting the View [RibbonTab] check box in the designer.