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OfficeMenu element

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Defines a collection of controls to be added to the Office context menu. Applies to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote add-ins.

Add-in type: Task pane

Valid only in these VersionOverrides schemas:

  • Taskpane 1.0

For more information, see Version overrides in the add-in only manifest.

Associated with these requirement sets:

Attributes

Attribute Required Description
id Yes The type of OfficeMenu being defined.

id

Although its official data type is string, this attribute effectively functions as a type attribute, and there are only two possible values. The attribute specifies the type of built-in Office menu to add this Office Add-in to.

  • ContextMenuText - Displays the item on the context menu when text is selected and the user opens that menu (e.g., right-clicks) on the selected text. Applies to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
  • ContextMenuCell - Displays the item on the context menu when the user opens that menu (e.g., right-clicks) on a cell on the spreadsheet. Applies to Excel.

Child elements

Element Required Description
Control of type Button Yes A single Button control object.
Control of type Menu Yes A single Menu control object.

Note

There can be only one child control.

Example

<ExtensionPoint xsi:type="ContextMenu">
  <OfficeMenu id="ContextMenuText">
    <Control xsi:type="Button" id="ContextMenuButton">
      <Label resid="TaskpaneButton.Label"/>
      <Supertip>
        <!-- ToolTip title. resid must point to a ShortString resource. -->
        <Title resid="TaskpaneButton.Label" />
        <!-- ToolTip description. resid must point to a LongString resource. -->
        <Description resid="TaskpaneButton.Tooltip" />
      </Supertip>
      <Icon>
        <bt:Image size="16" resid="tpicon_16x16" />
        <bt:Image size="32" resid="tpicon_32x32" />
        <bt:Image size="80" resid="tpicon_80x80" />
      </Icon>
      <Action xsi:type="ExecuteFunction">
        <FunctionName>action</FunctionName>
      </Action>
    </Control>
  </OfficeMenu>
</ExtensionPoint>