From the course: Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Developers
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An example glossary add-in for Word
From the course: Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Developers
An example glossary add-in for Word
- [Instructor] Let's apply the idea of a Word Add-In by creating a sample which will be a specialist glossary. Here's how the Glossary will work. We'll select some text in a document and the Add-In will analyze the text and where it sees a word that matches an item in it's dictionary it's going to add that word to the Glossary list. If the user clicks a button it will append the resulting Glossary to the end of the document. We could prototype this with Adobe XD but in this case we're going to just use a quick sketch. The Add-In will be a command button that launches a task pane with a tabbed navigation bar which will use the pivot component from Office UI Fabric. We'll have a home page, a Glossary page and a help page. When we click on the Create button it's going to scan the content of the document for words that exist in it's dictionary and then create the Glossary that you'll be able to preview on the Glossary tab. Then when we click on the Append button it's going to add the…
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