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Thread: Word Addin with usercontrol hosted in HTML page

Word Addin with usercontrol hosted in HTML page
Tad Bruin 6/22/2007 11:10:00 AM
Hi everyone

I have a word usercontrol hosted in an HTML page. When the page loads with
Word 2003 on the client machine - unnecessary menu items are disabled with
the commandbar menus. I am now trying to get the same effect if the client
has word 2007 loaded.

from reading around - it appears I need an addIn class which implements --
public string GetCustomUI(string ribbonId) -- which will then load a custom
xml template file. This is up and working if everything is on one machine -
lovely! But I can't see how when I go to using a remote client - how the
usercontrol (downloaded from the object tag on the page) knows about the
addin. Of course I could deploy the add-in on each client machine be then
this defeats the point of the web page. I might as well have written a
windows app (and arguably I should have done - technical specifications out
of my control unfortunately).

What am I missing. Is there a way to tell the user control about the addin?
Or is the another way entirely. It's a bit frustrating as the command bars
with word 2003 worked fine.

Any and all help greatly appreciated

Regards

Tim B

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