Re: Custom Task Pane in PowerPoint

As far as I know, PowerPoint offers no support for creating custom task panes.
You'll probably need to take a different approach, a userform, perhaps.

In article <07c392134e214c8a8c4107121d63a0c6@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marcel Grieder via
OfficeKB.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am searching on the web for solutions for this problem now for 2 days,
> but the answers i found are more confusing than helpful to me.
>
> I should create a custom toolbar for MS Powerpoint (if possible in C#) for
> my Company. With this task pane, the user should be able to search for
> images on the WebService of amazon.com, to return images. These images
> could be inserted into the presentation.
> So far, so good.
>
> Now, i got many possible approaches from the net, but none of those go me
> further.
>
> InfoPath: I could insert the code from C#, that i already developed (and
> worked) into a InfoPath Document, but found no way to create a task pane
> out of it.
>
> Smart Documents: I guess, those would work fine for Word & Excel, but not
> for PowerPoint.
>
> Does anyone know, if my plans are possible or not? Are there any
> professionals on this topic?
>
> Thanks for help,
> Marcel
>

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