ComponentOne Ribbon for WinForms
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    The Ribbon's floating toolbar is the only floating toolbar that will appear on the form regardless of the item the mouse is positioned over. To display the main Ribbon floating toolbar, click the click symbol on ribbon floating toolbar button that appears in the upper-left corner of the form. To close the floating toolbar, click the button.
    floating toolbar of ribbon

    The Ribbon's floating toolbar consists of the following buttons:

    Action button Actions: Load and save templates, and add tabs.
    Hide or show button Hide/show Ribbon items: Add or remove Ribbon items.
    Ribbon visual style button Change Ribbon's visual style: Edit the Ribbon's visual style.
    Localize dialog box button Localize: Opens the Localize dialog box.

    Actions

    Clicking the Actions button opens a list of available actions. The Load Ribbon/Save Ribbon Template feature allows end users to create a collection of ready-to-use templates for the Ribbon.


    Click actions button

    Hide/show Ribbon items

    Clicking the Hide/Show Ribbon Items button opens the Hide/Show Ribbon Items designer. In the designer, you can easily select or deselect existing items on the Ribbon to hide them or show them.


    Click hide/show button

    Visual Style

    Clicking the Change Ribbon's Visual Style button opens the Visual Style dialog box. Here you can change the visual style of the Ribbon to Office2007Black or Office2007Silver (or keep its default Office2007Blue style).


    Click Visual style button