Placeholder text in word code#

Harry, Sorry to post here, but trying to find out if you even got an answer to the following: From, 'Harry Sauers' wrote: When using (Office 2007 SP1) Word 2007 content controls, specifically nested group content controls, I have noticed that usually the content controls have triangles/arrows within the visible tags of the control as shown in Design Mode (Word Developer tab > Design Mode toggled on). Is this a valid way to use ContentControl.SetPlaceholderText? Has anyone else encountered this problem and is there a workaround? Any help would be appreciated.

Placeholder text in word code#

Below I have included code samples that demonstrate the error case described and the working case. If I do not set the placeholder text explicitly for the content control, the default placeholder text, 'Click here to enter text.' is shown and the 'Design Mode' error does not occur. Placeholder text cannot contain Items such as floating objects, revision marks, or content controls, Remove these items from the placeholder text and try again.' 'Word cannot turn off design mode because placeholder text in a content control contains invalid items. Also, when the text content control is created in this way (specifying placeholder text), the following error message is displayed when I toggle out of 'Design Mode' (Word Menu > Developer Tab > Controls Group > Design Mode button): I checked that the ContentControl.PlaceholderText is indeed set with the Value I provided it is just not displayed within the content control in the document. However, if I try to specify placeholder text for the content control, via ContentControl.SetPlaceholderText(), the placeholder text is not displayed in the content control in the document. I am creating Text Content Controls from the Add-In. One of the most common filler texts is lorem ipsum.I'm working on a managed code, Word 2007 Add-In using Visual Studio 2005 with VSTO and VSTO SE.

For example, the designer of an online newsletter may fill a template with dummy text to approximate the final layout. It may be used to preview fonts, spoof an e-mail spam filter, or reserve a specific place on a web page or other document for images, text, or some other object. Alternatively referred to as dummy text or filler text, placeholder text is text that temporarily 'holds a place' in a document for the purpose of typesetting and layout. Placeholder examplesД®xamples of placeholders in computer programming include the following.Дў. Placeholders may also be commented out to prevent the computer program from executing part of the code. The placeholder reminds the programmer where to add code, or can let other programmers know that additional code still needs to be added in general. She can use a placeholder as a temporary solution until a proper value or variable can be assigned.ДЄ placeholder in programming code may also be used to indicate where specific code needs to be added, but the programmer has not yet written the code.

For example, a programmer may know that she needs a certain number of values or variables, but doesn't yet know what to input.

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