Office 2013 deployment : Using OCT to deploy custom ribbon & Quick access toolbar

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a custom ribbon & quick access toolbar with office OCT for Office 2013 but i can't find anywhere in the documentation saying how to do it.

There is an article for Office 2010 about this... but i'm not to sure if it would work for Office 2013. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee704589%28v=office.14%29.aspx#odc_office14_DeployCustomRibbon_ExampleofficeUICustomizationFile)

It talks about *.officeUI files or some other articles talk about *.QAT but when i export the configuration that i want to use for Word 2013 i get a *.exportedUI file. Do i rename manullaly the file to be *.officeUI ?

Is there any unattended way to deploy this file so it is going to be applied for every users using a computer?

The users profiles are stored locally and they use Windows 7.

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Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)

Save the ribbon customization and QAT modifications in a template and save that in the users Word\Startup folder so that it is loaded as an Add-in.

See the article "Distributing macros to other users” at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)
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