Adding a pane (non-Ribbon question)

[David Thielen]

Hi;

How can we put a pane in the document area from our AddIn? I want to
push the document area to the right and have my pane in the left part
of the main window.

It's fine if this is 2007+ only.

thanks - dave

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[Tony Jollans]

Don't know the details but you can create Custom Task Panes in Visual
Studio.

 

[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

The Office 2007 Custom Task Pane should be what you want. After you create
one, you can set its DockPosition to Left so that it will appear at the
left of the document.

Here is the documentation on this topic,
Creating CustomTask Panes in 2007 Office System,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338197.aspx

If you need any future help on this, just let us know!

Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[David Thielen]

Hello Dave,

The Office 2007 Custom Task Pane should be what you want. After you create
one, you can set its DockPosition to Left so that it will appear at the
left of the document.

Here is the documentation on this topic,
Creating CustomTask Panes in 2007 Office System,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338197.aspx

If you need any future help on this, just let us know!

Is there a way to do this without creating an ActiveX control? I've
been told by several people on the Office team that we should avoid
using ActiveX.

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

 

[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Sorry for follow up late, I did not receive notification on the last reply.

The Form is written in managed code and it is a Winform control. But to let
native Office application be aware of the managed control, this managed
control has to be registered as an ActiveX control. All managed controls
added onto everywhere in Office surface must have a ActiveX layer.


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support.