title: Office Ribbon XML vs Office Standard Ribbon Designer?
body: <p>I am writing a Powerpoint Addin application, and using 2 ways to create a ribbon menu (XML, and designer). I went through the MSDN document about Office Ribbon XML, and tried to create a Ribbon menu this way. I see that creating a Ribbon menu by using the Designer tool has the same functionality as the Ribbon XML. </p>
  
  <p>In a meanwhile, Ribbon XML is more complicated, time-consuming, more work to deal with (because you have to make it manually: writing callback, etc), not able to access its items via <strong>Globals</strong>. The only thing, I think Ribbon XML might be useful, since it might be used for different office applications (because you can transfer a xml file from one project to another project easily ???)</p>
  
  <p>Can you tell me the advantages of using Office Ribbon XML over Designer? These advantages are mentioned in some MSDN documents, but I do not get it properly. Thanks</p>