Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath

22. Working with XML in Word

Introduction to Word’s XML Features

The first thing to note about the XML features described in this chapter is that most of them are available only in Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and the stand-alone version of Microsoft Office Word 2003. If you work with other Office Editions—such as Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003, or Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003—the XML features described in this chapter are not available.

Many of the XML features of Word are accessed via Word’s XML Structure task pane. To show the XML Structure task pane, if it is not already displayed, choose Task Pane in Word’s View menu. The task pane has a drop-down list from ...