Persistent menu in Word (through VSTO 2005)

Persistent menu in Word (through VSTO 2005)

• Steven Randolph

  You can create a Word VSTO template solutions and put it into Word startup folder (in Word: Tools->Templates and Addins)
  
  Regards,
  Peter
  
  

• Christatos

  Hi Nick,
  
  Try the VSTO Hands on Lab - http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_tr/html/officevsto2005wordlabs.asp
  
  
  
  

• damuser

  Peter,
  
  Thank you for your reply.
  
  Could you please provide me with more details (or point me to a place which may have further info) on how exactly I would go about adding such a menu
  I cannot seem to find an example on MSDN or elsewhere...
  
  Thank you,
  
  -Nick
  
  P.S.: I tried inserting this into the startup method of the ThisDocument.cs, but it throws an Exception. In this case, I'm trying to add a sub-menu to a context menu, but I assume it wouldn't be any different for other top-level menus.
  
  

  Office.CommandBarPopup popupMenu = (Office.CommandBarPopup) this.ThisApplication.CommandBars["Text"].Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup, this.missing, this.missing, this.missing, true); popupMenu.Caption = "Sample menu"; popupMenu.Tag = "Sample";

  
  
  
  
  EDIT: I found why the above didn't work. Apparently, I need to do the above steps from within another class with a [ComVisible(true)] tacked on top.
  
  See post "Calling managed code with Beta 2" on microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office for more info.
  
  Now, to figure out how to catch the click event...

  
  

• Yogesh Ranade

  Hi Nick,
  
  Word documents/templates customized with VSTO cannot be used as global templates (or loaded from the Startup directory of Word). For more information, see "Limitations of Global Templates and Add-ins" at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178759(en-US,VS.80).aspx.
  
  Kathleen
  http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/
  
  

• David Teitlebaum MSFT

  PeterJausovec wrote:

  You can create a Word VSTO template solutions and put it into Word startup folder (in Word: Tools->Templates and Addins) Regards, Peter

  
  
  Peter,
  
  Can you elaborate on this please Do I just place the .DOT and .DLL files in some folder and point to it through Templates and Addins Or is there more to it
  
  I tried doing the above, and Word produced an error, saying that "The document template is not valid."  Is there a step that I am missing
  
  Thanks,
  
  -Nick
  
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