DropDownListContentControl.SetPlaceholderText Method

Displays text that is in a BuildingBlock, a Range, or a string as the placeholder text in the DropDownListContentControl.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Sub SetPlaceholderText ( _
    BuildingBlock As BuildingBlock, _
    Range As Range, _
    Text As String _
)
void SetPlaceholderText(
    BuildingBlock BuildingBlock,
    Range Range,
    string Text
)

Parameters

Remarks

The placeholder text is displayed until a user selects an item or the control is populated with data from a data source.

Only one of the parameters is used when you call the SetPlaceholderText method. If more than one parameter is specified, Microsoft Office Word uses the first specified parameter. If all parameters are omitted, the placeholder text is an empty string.

To get the placeholder text of a DropDownListContentControl, use the PlaceholderText property. You can also use this property to set the placeholder text to a string.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

DropDownListContentControl Interface

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word Namespace