Creating an Office Add-In
To start creating your own Office add-in, create a new project in Visual Studio by selecting any of the Office add-in project types. Figure 22.4 shows the basic project structure created with a Word add-in project. We have a single code-file that establishes the startup entry point for the add-in and provides us with the namespaces we need to access the Word automation object model.
FIGURE 22.4 A Microsoft Word 2013 add-in project.
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