ContentControl Object Members
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An individual content control. Content controls are bounded and potentially labeled regions in a document that serve as containers for specific types of content. Individual content controls may contain contents such as dates, lists, or paragraphs of formatted text. The ContentControl object is a member of the ContentControls collection.
Methods
Name | Description | |
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Copy | Copies the content control from the active document to the Clipboard. | |
Cut | Removes the content control from the active document and moves the content control to the Clipboard. | |
Delete | Deletes the specified content control and the contents of the content control. | |
SetPlaceholderText | Sets the placeholder text that displays in the content control until a user enters their own text. | |
ToggleEditPlaceholderText | Switches the state between editing the placeholder text for a content control and saving the placeholder text, and returns a Long that represents the state. | |
Ungroup | Removes a group content control from a document so that its child content controls are no longer nested and can be freely edited. |
Properties
Name | Description | |
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Application | Returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Word application. | |
BuildingBlockCategory | Returns or sets a String that represents the category for a building block content control. Read/write. | |
BuildingBlockType | Returns or sets a WdBuildingBlockTypes constant that represents they type of building block for a building block content control. Read/write. | |
Creator | Returns a 32-bit integer that indicates the application in which the add-in was created. Read-only Long. | |
DateCalendarType | Returns or sets a WdCalendarType constant that represents the calendar type for a calendar content control. Read/write. | |
DateDisplayFormat | Returns or sets a String that represents the format in which dates are displayed. Read/write. | |
DateDisplayLocale | Returns a WdLanguageID that represents the language format for the date displayed in a date content control. Read/write. | |
DateStorageFormat | Returns or sets a WdContentControlDateStorageFormat that represents the format for storage and retrieval of dates when a date content control is bound to the XML data store of the active document. Read/write. | |
DefaultTextStyle | Returns or sets a Variant that represents the name of the character style to use to format text in a text content control. Read/write. | |
DropdownListEntries | Returns a ContentControlListEntries collection that represents the items in a drop-down list content control or in a combo box content control. Read-only. | |
ID | Returns a String that represents the identification for a content control. Read-only. | |
LockContentControl | Returns or sets a Boolean that represents whether the user can delete a content control from the active document. Read/write. | |
LockContents | Returns or sets a Boolean that represents whether the user can edit the contents of a content control. Read/write. | |
MultiLine | Returns a Boolean that represents whether a text content control allows multiple lines of text. Read/write. | |
Parent | Returns an Object that represents the parent object of the specified ContentControl object. | |
ParentContentControl | Returns a ContentControl that represents the parent content control for a content control that is nested inside a rich-text control or group control. Read-only. | |
PlaceholderText | Returns a BuildingBlock object that represents the placeholder text for a content control. Read-only. | |
Range | Returns a Range that represents the contents of the content control in the active document. Read-only. | |
ShowingPlaceholderText | Returns a Boolean that indicates whether the placeholder text for the content control is displayed. Read-only. | |
Tag | Returns or sets a String that represents a value to identify a content control. Read/write. | |
Temporary | Returns or sets a Boolean that represents whether to remove a content control from the active document when the user edits the contents of the control. Read/write. | |
Title | Returns or sets a String that represents the title for a content control. Read/write. | |
Type | Returns or sets a WdContentControlType that represents the type for a content control. Read/write. | |
XMLMapping | Returns an XMLMapping object that represents the mapping of a content control to XML data in the data store of a document. Read-only. |