Modify task pane in Office XP

[Niki Estner]

Hi there,

Is it possible to modify the task pane in office XP apps, e.g. add a custom
'page'?
All I found on the web was an article about Office 2003's research pane, but
that's not what I want (appears to be a web service...).

I hoped for some kind of 'ITaskPaneItem'-Interface I could implement in a
simple COM-object...

Does anybody know if this is possible?

Thank you

Niki

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Niki,

Generally, this is not possible, no. You can add and remove some things in the
"New document" task pane, and that's it in Word 2002/Office XP.

In Word 2003 SmartDocument technology has been introduced. Based on where the
cursor is in a document containing XML tags, you can program in a Windows DLL
what should be displayed in the "Document actions" task pane, and take
actions.

Is it possible to modify the task pane in office XP apps, e.g. add a custom
'page'?
All I found on the web was an article about Office 2003's research pane, but
that's not what I want (appears to be a web service...).

I hoped for some kind of 'ITaskPaneItem'-Interface I could implement in a
simple COM-object...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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