Custom Task Panes are created per Window (ie Document)

[David Thielen]

Is that correct?

thanks - dave

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[Ji Zhou]

Yes. Custom Task Pane is created per Window. That is to say, if you create a
CTP in AddInStartup to the default document window, the second open document
will not show that CTP.

If we want to show a custom task pane for each window. We need to hanlde
WindowActivate event and keep track of all open windows and their CTP status
in a global collection. There are MSDN documentations for this objective,

Managing Task pans in Multiple Word documents,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264456(office.12).aspx

Creating Custom Task Panes in the 2007 Office system.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338197(office.12).aspx
(note the CreateCTP function's third parameter is used to specify a window
which hosts the CTP)

Best regards,
Ji Zhou - MSFT
Microsoft Online Community Support