A Toolbar for MS Word 2003

Hi Cripto,

You can create a Word Add In which adds custom toolbar and button on Word. Then you write the button¡¯s click event handle, in which, you can start your application using the following statement:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program Files\Your Company\Your Product\Application.exe")

You can refer the following link to see: how to add custom toolbar and button.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/scff9c7c(VS.80).aspx

Thanks

Ji

KAMACI wrote:

Private Sub AddToolbar() Try commandBar = Me.CommandBars("Test") 'FIRST Catch ex As ArgumentException ' Toolbar named Test does not exist so we should create it. End Try If commandBar Is Nothing Then commandBar = Application.CommandBars.Add("Test", 1, False, True) 'SECOND End If Try At the line of FIRST:Itgive me error.Error is: CommandBars is not a member of 'wordAddin1.ThisAddin'.I changed 'Me' keyword and rewrite that line: commandBar = Application.CommandBars("Test").(When i do this my program runs and don't give me an error while debugging)Is this an appropriate way to solve the problem and for which purpose we use CommandBars method If i make that line a command line (i mean if i write ' commandBar = Application.CommandBars("Test") )

Yes, that is the appropriate way.

The article on MSDN takes VSTO document-level project as example. Document-level project's root class is ThisDocument, so Me stands for the document. The document has a CommandBars property(same as Application's CommandBars).

You are working with a Word AddIn, the root class is ThisAddIn, so Me stands for the add in's instance, you must use the Application property to access the CommandBars.

Your codes are totally right!

KAMACI wrote:

The last thing i want to learn is that: On the SECOND line if commandBar is nothing how we can use "Add" method without "initializing" commandBar

The above codes first try to get a CommandBar instance named "Test".

If commandBar is nothing, which proves that the "Test" CommandBar is still not created. So we use CommandBars.Add() method to create a CommandBar, and this method returns an instance of newly added CommandBar which we assigned to commandBar variable.

If commandBar is no nothing, which proves there is already a CommandBar named "Test", then we do not need to create it for a second time

Thanks

Ji

Hi Cripto,

It returns the whole path in my machine. ActiveDocument.Name returns the short file name, while ActiveDocument.FullName returns the whole name include the path (Note: only the saved document will return the whole name. I mean, if we create a blank word document and do not save it to any place. It will only return temp name, just like document1, document2)

I copy the following table from the watch window

If this still does not help. I want to make sure our Office Version. I test in Office 2007

Thanks

Ji