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Controls on Office Documents

You can use the Office development tools in Visual Studio to add Windows Forms controls and host controls to Word documents and Excel worksheets. Host controls are objects that extend various user interface (UI) objects in the Word and Excel object models.

Applies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and application-level projects for the following applications: Excel 2013 and Excel 2010; Word 2013 and Word 2010. For more information, see Features Available by Office Application and Project Type.

When you develop application-level projects for Excel or Word, you can programmatically add these controls to any open document or workbook at run time.

When you develop document-level projects for Excel or Word, you can programmatically add these controls at run time, or you can use the Visual Studio designer to add these controls to the document or workbook in your project at design time.

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