From the Word Controls tab of the Toolbox, drag a Bookmark control to your document.

The Add Bookmark Control dialog box appears.

Select the word Name, without selecting the paragraph mark, and click OK.

Note:
The paragraph mark should be outside of the bookmark. If paragraph marks are not visible in the document, click the Tools menu, point to Microsoft Office Word Tools and then click Options. Click the View tab, and select the Paragraph marks check box in the Formatting marks section of the Options dialog box.

In the Properties window, change the Name property of Bookmark1 to showName.

Select the word Address, without selecting the paragraph mark.

Perform one of the following steps:

• For Word 2003: On the Insert menu, click Bookmark.

• For Word 2007: On the Insert tab of the Ribbon, in the Links group, click Bookmark.

In the Bookmark dialog box, type showAddress in the Bookmark Name box and click Add.

Select the My Basic Actions Pane project in Solution Explorer.

On the Project menu, click Add New Item.

In the Add New Item dialog box, click Actions Pane Control, name the control InsertTextControl, and click Add.

If the actions pane control is not visible in the designer, double-click InsertTextControl.

From the Common Controls tab of the Toolbox, drag a Label control to the actions pane control.

Change the Text property of the Label control to Name.

Add a Textbox control to the actions pane control, and change the following properties.

Add a second Label control to the actions pane control, and change the Text property to Address.

Add a second Textbox control to the actions pane control, and change the following properties.

Add a Button control to the actions pane control, and change the following properties.

Add the following code to the Click event handler of the addText button.

Private Sub addText_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
    Handles addText.Click

    If Me.getName.Text <> String.Empty Then
        Globals.ThisDocument.showName.Text = Me.getName.Text
    End If

    If Me.getAddress.Text <> String.Empty Then
        Globals.ThisDocument.showAddress.Text = Me.getAddress.Text
    End If

    Me.getName.Text = String.Empty
    Me.getAddress.Text = String.Empty
End Sub

private void addText_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.getName.Text != String.Empty) 
    {
        Globals.ThisDocument.showName.Text = this.getName.Text;
    }

    if (this.getAddress.Text != String.Empty)
    {
        Globals.ThisDocument.showAddress.Text = this.getAddress.Text;
    }

    this.getName.Text = String.Empty;
    this.getAddress.Text = String.Empty;
}

In C#, you must add an event handler for the button click. You can place this code in the InsertTextControl constructor after the call to IntializeComponent. For information about creating event handlers, see How to: Create Event Handlers in Visual Studio Tools for Office.

public InsertTextControl()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    this.addText.Click += new EventHandler(addText_Click);
}

Create a new instance of the actions pane control in the ThisDocument class.

Dim insertText As New InsertTextControl

private InsertTextControl insertText = new InsertTextControl();

Add the following code to the Startup event handler of ThisDocument.

Me.ActionsPane.Controls.Add(insertText)

this.ActionsPane.Controls.Add(insertText);

Press F5 to run your project.

Confirm that the actions pane is visible.

Type your name and address into the text boxes on the actions pane and click Insert.