A content control like MS's citation, bibliography, TOC, etc.?

[mccaskey]

In Word 2007, inserting a bibliography, citation or table of contents
adds content controls that have features I'd like to use too. But I
don't see how.

Insert a bibliography or table of contents, click in it, and you'll
see commands where the title would be. Add a citation, click in it,
and you'll see a drop-down list in which the entries are commands.

Is there a way for us to create such high-powered content controls,
too? I didn't see documentation on how to add commands to content
controls, so I thought I'd use Visual Studio to peek at those super
controls and see what's going on. But the ContentControls collection
doesn't see them.

John

 

[mccaskey]

In Word 2007, inserting a bibliography, citation or table of contents
adds content controls that have features I'd like to use too. But I
don't see how.

Insert a bibliography or table of contents, click in it, and you'll
see commands where the title would be. Add a citation, click in it,
and you'll see a drop-down list in which the entries are commands.

Is there a way for us to create such high-powered content controls,
too? I didn't see documentation on how to add commands to content
controls, so I thought I'd use Visual Studio to peek at those super
controls and see what's going on. But the ContentControls collection
doesn't see them.

John

I now see that these powerful tools are not content controls. They are
regions that contain content controls, or contain fields. (There is
one wrapped around the date field, but not the time field.) On the
Microsoft Word Team's Blog, these regions, which have borders, titles,
handles, and actions, are called acetate layers.

So to rephrase my question: Is there a way to create acetate layers?

If not, then . . . "Dear Microsoft, please let add-in programmers
create their own acetate layers!"

John