Chapter 6. Programming Word
Ways to Customize Word
Word has a very rich object model that consists of 248 objects that combined have more than 4,200 properties and methods. Word also supports several models for integrating your code, including add-ins and code behind documents. Most of these models were originally designed to allow the integration of COM components written in VB 6, VBA, C, or C++. However, through COM interop, managed objects written in C# or Visual Basic can masquerade as COM objects and participate in most of these models. This chapter briefly considers several of the ways that you can integrate your code with Word and refers you to other chapters that discuss these approaches in more depth. This chapter also explores building ...
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