PlainTextContentControl.PlaceholderText Property (2007 System)

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09/25/2012

Gets or sets the text that is displayed in the PlainTextContentControl until the text is changed by a user action or some other operation.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v9.0 (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v9.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property PlaceholderText As String

'Usage
Dim instance As PlainTextContentControl 
Dim value As String 

value = instance.PlaceholderText

instance.PlaceholderText = value

public string PlaceholderText { get; set; }

public:
property String^ PlaceholderText {
    String^ get ();
    void set (String^ value);
}

public function get PlaceholderText () : String 
public function set PlaceholderText (value : String)

Property Value

Type: System.String
The text that is displayed in the control until the text is changed by a user action or some other operation.

Remarks

The placeholder text is displayed until a user edits the control, the control is populated with data from a data source, or the control's contents are deleted.

To set the placeholder text to text that is in a BuildingBlock or a Range, use the SetPlaceholderText method.

Examples

The following code example adds a new PlainTextContentControl to the beginning of the document. The example sets the PlaceholderText property to a string that prompts the user to type his or her first name.

This version is for a document-level customization. To use this code, paste it into the ThisDocument class in your project, and call the AddTextControlAtSelection method from the ThisDocument_Startup method.

Dim plainTextControl1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.PlainTextContentControl

Private Sub AddPlainTextControlAtSelection()
    Me.Paragraphs(1).Range.InsertParagraphBefore()
    Me.Paragraphs(1).Range.Select()
    plainTextControl1 = Me.Controls.AddPlainTextContentControl("plainTextControl1")
    plainTextControl1.PlaceholderText = "Enter your first name" 
End Sub

private Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.PlainTextContentControl textControl1;

private void AddTextControlAtSelection()
{
    this.Paragraphs[1].Range.InsertParagraphBefore();
    this.Paragraphs[1].Range.Select();

    textControl1 = this.Controls.AddPlainTextContentControl("textControl1");
    textControl1.PlaceholderText = "Enter your first name";
}

This version is for an application-level add-in. To use this code, paste it into the ThisAddIn class in your project, and call the AddTextControlAtSelection method from the ThisAddIn_Startup method.

Dim plainTextControl1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.PlainTextContentControl

Private Sub AddPlainTextControlAtSelection()
    If Me.Application.ActiveDocument Is Nothing Then 
        Return 
    End If 

    Dim vstoDoc As Document = Me.Application.ActiveDocument.GetVstoObject()
    vstoDoc.Paragraphs(1).Range.InsertParagraphBefore()
    vstoDoc.Paragraphs(1).Range.Select()
    plainTextControl1 = vstoDoc.Controls.AddPlainTextContentControl("plainTextControl1")
    plainTextControl1.PlaceholderText = "Enter your first name" 
End Sub

private Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.PlainTextContentControl textControl1;

private void AddTextControlAtSelection()
{
    if (this.Application.ActiveDocument == null)
        return;

    Document vstoDoc = this.Application.ActiveDocument.GetVstoObject();
    vstoDoc.Paragraphs[1].Range.InsertParagraphBefore();
    vstoDoc.Paragraphs[1].Range.Select();

    textControl1 = vstoDoc.Controls.AddPlainTextContentControl("textControl1");
    textControl1.PlaceholderText = "Enter your first name";
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

Change History

Date	History	Reason
July 2008	Added a version of the code example for an application-level add-in.	SP1 feature change.

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