Microsoft Word ‘07 application plug-in
A hands-on demo
Shada Alsalamah

Structure
• What is a plug-in/ add-in?
• Why is it important?
• What do you need?
• How to start off?
• Demo
• Examples
• Help & support

What is a plug-in?
• Asoftware able to be added to an application
or system.
• A standard way to extendtheir behaviors.
• Give extracustomfeatures or functions to
specific applications and/ or across them.

What is a plug-in?
• Are bundles whose code is
loadeddynamically into the runtime of the
application.
• Development is supported in
differentplatforms
o Windows: versions of Microsoft® applications
o Macintosh: iTunes and Final Cut Pro

Why is it important?
• Saves time and effort.
• Increases usability.
• Attached to the hosting application.
• Can be easily added and removed by the user.

What do you need?
1. Microsoft Visual Studio
2. Programming experience
3. Programming language:
(Visual Basic, C #, or C++)

How to start?
• Step 1: Create project and choose language.
• Step 2: Create a User Interface and add controls.
• Step 3: Add code to the event handler of controls.
• Step 4: Run the program to test its functionality.

Demo
MS Word plug-in

Examples
• EndNote
• Acrobat
• Information Labeling Palette
• AraDict

Help?
1. MSDN
• http://msdn.microsoft.com
2. Ribbon
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386097.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386089.aspx

Conclusion
• Plug-ins are software that can be
added to an application.
• Used to extend the existing features.

Conclusion
• Demonstrated the What, Why, and
Howquestions about creating an MS
Word plug-in.
• Examples.
• Help & support.

Thank you!
ShadaAlsalamah
e-mail: S.A.Salamah@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Tweets @alsalamahs