SINGLE FILE WORD ADDIN CONTAINING REQUISITE TEMPLATE SECTIONS

Question

Is there anyway to have a document template placed inside a Word AddIn?

An example is as follows:

There are 3 Buttons on a Custom Ribbon Tab presented by a Word AddIn designed inside VS2010.

Upon Clicking Button_1, Button_2 or Button_3, I need the AddIn to present the relevant Section {i.e. Sections(1), Section(2) or Sections(3) respectively} of a template be presented on a new Word Document.

I need a whole document template with three different Sections inside the Word Addin itself, so that all I need to distribute amongst the users a Single AddIn file instead of including an additional template file to select the relevant section therefrom.

Thanx in advance.

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Best Regards, Faraz A Qureshi

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by inside a Word Addin. But you can write code in your button click event to generate things you want once the button is clicked.

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Fermin

Answer 2

Hi Faraz

A Word Add-in, created using the VSTO technology, is a set of files that are distributed and installed on the client machine. So a Word Add-in is, itself, not a single file AND just about anything can be distributed as part of the Add-in "Solution".

So it would be quite possible for you to distribute a Word template (*.dotx, *.dotm or *.dot file) as part of the Add-in. This template could contain Building Blocks that hold the various alternate content you'd like to access. On clicking a button in the Add-in, a particular Building Block entry could be inserted from the template (which the Add-in would first need to load).

If you're not referring to a VSTO add-in, but instead a Word template add-in, then the approach would be the same: store the content as Building blocks in the Add-in template and insert a building block as required.

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Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP