View, install, and manage add-ins in Office applications. Setting up Word to work

The add-in is the same Word file. Unlike a regular document, this file contains programs - macros. These programs are launched directly from the tab on the ribbon. You can see how it looks in the picture. The add-in will automatically load when you start your Word document.

VBA-Word add-in composition

Will write any specified number in words. It can declare it in any case, add rubles, kopecks, dollars, euros, pieces and much more. There are various output formats, with or without parentheses.

A large set of algorithms for text editing. It includes removing double spaces, spaces before punctuation marks, removing text wrapping on another line (for example, between value and unit). You can control the changes made, or you can entrust all the fixes to the program.

The ribbon also contains several commands for communicating with the developer. At any time you can leave a comment on the work of the program, make a proposal to improve the work of a particular function, leave an order for the development of a macro.

Acquisition

All add-on functions can be test for free several times (10-20 times). As a rule, this limitation is enough to solve a complex problem one-time, and also to understand that the program saves you time, money and nerves. The cost of the VBA-Word add-in is only 1000 rubles... The price includes installation on 2 computers. All future updates of the program will be free of charge.

Installation

The add-in is installed for MS Word 2007 and higher. Operating system requirement - Windows.

  1. Click the "Download" button above.
  2. Open the downloaded Word file and click on the "Install" button.

If the program is not installed

  1. Often, because the file is downloaded from the Internet, Word opens the file in Protected View. To disable it, you must click the "Allow Editing" button under the ribbon. After that, you should open the downloaded file again.
  2. It is possible that macros are not allowed to run. How to enable them is written in the article

Interface design is most commonly used when creating add-ins. An add-in is an invisible document with embedded VBA code and its own add-ons to the interface, which is automatically opened by the application at startup. When launched, it does not show its body (i.e. the contents of the document - text, pictures, etc.), but only manifests itself through its changes in the interface and connected macros. Thus, the Microsoft Office application complements its functionality and allows you to edit other documents using the newly acquired functions.

A Word add-in document has the .dotm extension. In fact, the Word add-in is a regular macro-enabled template. There are separate extensions for Excel and PowerPoint add-ins - .xlam and .ppam, respectively.

Note that the .xlam and .ppam add-ons simply do not open in applications as a document for editing, so until such an add-on is ready, it is saved as a regular document with macro support. But the .dotm template can be opened in Word exactly as a template (at least the Ribbon XML Editor does this), so it can be saved by the template during the add-in development process. However, I still recommend to act in a uniform manner, and always keep the source code of add-ins in the format of regular documents with support for macros, and translate them into templates or add-ins only after their development is complete.

So let's try to build a Word add-in that looks like a separate tab and contains a group of buttons that perform some actions. Let it be some kind of action with spaces. Note that the process of creating an Excel add-in is no different from creating a Word add-in, and if you know how to create one, you will be able to create another.

Let's open the Ribbon XML Editor, open our experimental document in it, and copy the text of the interface of our add-in into the window for the 2007 interface: