Factory.CreateAction Method

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Creates a Action object that represents an action for a smart tag.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function CreateAction ( _
    caption As String _
) As Action

Action CreateAction(
    string caption
)

Parameters

  • caption
    Type: System.String
    The name of the action, which is displayed by the smart tag menu.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Action
The new smart tag action.

Remarks

For more information about smart tag actions, see Smart Tags Overview and Smart Tags Architecture.

Important

Smart tags are deprecated in Excel 2010 and Word 2010. You can still use the related APIs, but there is no smart tag functionality after Excel 2007 and Word 2007.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to create a smart tag and an action in a Word document project. To use this example, run the code from the ThisDocument class.

Dim simpleSmartTag As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.SmartTag =
    Globals.Factory.CreateSmartTag(
        "www.microsoft.com/Demo#DemoSmartTag",
        "Test Smart Tag")
Dim simpleAction As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Action =
    Globals.Factory.CreateAction("Test Action")

simpleSmartTag.Terms.Add("blue")
simpleSmartTag.Actions = New Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Action() { _
    simpleAction}
Me.VstoSmartTags.Add(simpleSmartTag)

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.SmartTag simpleSmartTag =
    Globals.Factory.CreateSmartTag(
    "www.microsoft.com/Demo#DemoSmartTag",
    "Test Smart Tag");
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Action simpleAction =
    Globals.Factory.CreateAction("Test Action");

simpleSmartTag.Terms.Add("blue");
simpleSmartTag.Actions = new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.Action[] { 
    simpleAction };
this.VstoSmartTags.Add(simpleSmartTag);

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See Also

Reference

Factory Interface

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word Namespace