Questions tagged [customtaskpane]
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Excel Custom TaskPane with WebBrowser control - Show/Hide with Ribbon Button
What is the best way to implement a web interface into the application level custom task pane using Visual Studio 2015 for Excel 2010 and 2013 and set taskpane visibility from a ribbon button?
I want to show/hide the custom task pane based on a…
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Excel Task Pane add-in to show content from external source
I am trying to build an Excel/Word task pane add-in that should show content from our site. The content/data is passed in XML format.
What I have tried to do is the following:
Office.initialize = function (reason) {
$(document).ready(function ()…
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Excel Task Pane Not Showing
I'm trying to create an Excel Add-In with a custom task pane. I've followed this tutorial want to show a Windows Forms control when a user clicks a custom button on the ribbon. However, the only time I can get the pane to show is when I added a test…
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How can I modify the Office Custom Task Pane menu?
I'm making a Custom Task Pane for MS Word using Visual Studio (C#), and would like to add an option to the drop-down menu that, as far as I can tell, appears on all such task-panes. This is the menu I mean.
Is there a way to add an option to the…
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CustomTaskPane set to maximum size
I would like to open the Winform's CustomTaskPane in Excel at maximum size when it is first opened. How to maximize the custome taskpane?
Let's say the TaskPane is docked to the left of the Excel screen. According to MDSN
The maximum width is…
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Dock TaskPanes right using VBA for Word 07?
I have little experience in VBA, and am trying to make some minor adjustments to Word's default load settings.
When a user creates a document, I need the Styles Formatting Pane to open (I got this working fine), but I also need it to be docked on…
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Custom task pane support in Office 2003
I have created a C++ Office 2007/2010 add-in that exposes a custom task pane via ICustomTaskPaneConsumer and by implementing an ActiveX control. This works perfectly.
Now I want to include support for Office 2003. I have managed to add a toolbar…
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MS Word Custom Task Pane disappears when clicking on File menu
I created an addin for MS Word 365 using Custom Task Pane. Through the OnVisibleChanged method I am able to determine when to open/close the addin. The problem: by clicking the File menu (top right on the ribbon), its visibility change to false and…
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Outlook VSTO how to get Custom Task Pane to work with multiple open compose windows?
I've followed this tutorial to create a Custome Task Pane when composing a new message: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/walkthrough-displaying-custom-task-panes-with-e-mail-messages-in-outlook?view=vs-2022&tabs=csharp
So far,…
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Different TaskPane for each Excel Sheet
I am working on a Office 365 Excel Add-ins and have the basic setup with the manifest. I want to be able to create a new worksheet and have a different state of the same taskpane.
So for example, let say in Sheet1 i am doing some validation on the…
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System.InvalidCastException while adding User control to CustomTaskPane
I am trying to add a User control on Microsoft.Office.Tools.CustomTaskPane myCustomTaskPane by using following line:
myUserControl = new IssueAddition(categoryList);
myCustomTaskPane = this.CustomTaskPanes.Add(myUserControl, "Issue Reporting Pane");…
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how to disable close/resize buttons in word customTaskPane by VSTO?
I wrote a vsto word addins, and I create a customTaskPane control to show some messages or web page, but I found there is no way to disable close/resize button on taskpane. so that we cannot suspend customer's close action.Do anyone know how to…
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VSTO Outlook: Getting Screen.FromControl(this).Bounds makes message preview not be displayed in the explorer
I have a custom task pane (ctp) at the top of my VSTO Outlook Add-in.
I create it as below:
this.myHostControl = new myHostControl();
this.myCtp = Globals.ThisAddIn.CustomTaskPanes.Add(myHostControl, "My Toolbar");
this.myCtp .DockPosition =…
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VSTO Outlook: Custom task pane title is shifted to the right when changing screen resolution and/or scale from the OS
I have an VSTO Outlook Add-in. This Add-in consists on a custom task pane that is placed at the top. Due to new vertical Outlook pane for Apps which appears on the left and which is currently overlapping with the left side of my custom task pane (it…
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VSTO Outlook: Detect when custom task pane is being resized manually
I have and VSTO Outlook Add-in which has a custom task pane at the top. Now I am trying to detect if there is a way or some trick to detect when the custom task pane is being resized (its height). Height resize can be done through the menu or…
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