title: Creating an MS Office add-in that adds a new tab to the ribbon interface and presents macros to the user as buttons on this tab
body: <p>I wish to create a Microsoft Word add-in for use by others in my office which will give them access to a few macros that will increase productivity and possibly prevent the odd mistake from happening. </p>
  
  <p>The bit that I cannot work out is how I can get this add-in to automatically create a new tab and display its various macros as buttons on this tab.  All I can find is information on how to manually customise the ribbon interface or import an existing customisation. These methods will not work as I have co-workers who already have customised their ribbon interface and thus are unwilling to have my work overwrite theirs.  </p>
  
  <p>As far as I can tell there are no VBA methods that directly manipulate the ribbon interface so I'm slightly stumped. I do believe that this is possible as a co-worker showed me a document which seemed to do this. Could anyone give me a pointer in the right direction?</p>