Getting started

[Dave 23458]

Dear MSDNers,

I am a Web programmer so not new to programming but , aside from a little
ASP, haven't programmed for the Window's platform and have no idea how to
program for Microsoft Word.

I work at a university and want to build a toolbar that will allow people to
insert comments such as "good", "inaccurate", "extraoridnary!", etc into
documents at the push of a button. I want to distribute this as an .exe file
that people would run to install the toolbar into their copy of Microsoft
Word.

Can anyone tell me the technologies best suited to doing this and point me
towards some good books or online tutorials?

Many thanks,

Dave

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can create these comments as AutoText entries, add them to a custom
toolbar, and store both entries and toolbar in a global template. Creating
an .exe to install the template is a possibility and probably a good idea,
since instructions on how to install templates faze many users. For
information on how to do that, however, you need to ask in one of the
word.vba NGs, where the developers hang out, as this is an end-user group.