MS Word Plugin, Adding a button which pops up on right click on selected text

c# word-2007 shared-addin
Nikhil picture Nikhil · Mar 26, 2009 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I am working on a shared addin for MS Word 2007. I would like to add a button which pops up when selected text is right clicked. The attached snapshot should make this clear.

Currently, the user has to select the text and then click a button on a custom control. It would be a lot easier if after selecting the text, s/he could right click it and press the relevant button in the popup.

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Answer

Marcus picture Marcus · Mar 31, 2009

You need to extend the correct contextmenu. The following link describes in words (no source code) how this can be achieved:

Shared Addin using Word

Maybe this Link might help a little with the coding. I haven't tried it out myself, but it might point into the right direction.

Good luck! :)

Edit:

Does it have to be the ribbon style context menu or would a button within the normal context menu be enough? In case the normal menu would be ok, you might use this way (C#):

 Microsoft.Office.Core.CommandBar cb = this.Application.CommandBars["Text"];

 Office.CommandBarControl newButton = cb.Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlButton, missing, missing, missing, missing);  
 newButton.Caption = "Test";
 newButton.Visible = true;
 newButton.Enabled = true;

You can do this with VSTO, I'm not so sure if it works exactly the same way with the shared Add-In technology, but maybe it does help ;)

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