Working with Content Controls

A Content Control is, essentially, a container that enables you to store and act on different types of document content. Some of these controls are simply placeholders for text or other content, some enable your users to select from choices of content that you specify, and some provide additional types of functionality to help you do more with the content they contain. All Content Controls are XML-based, so they enable you to take advantage of XML data storage and sharing capabilities to get more done in your documents with less work.

As shown in Chapter 9, you can recognize a Content Control in a couple of ways. When you hover over any Content Control, it appears shaded (blue in most color schemes), as shown here ...

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