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You can also watch for when users insert new building blocks into a document by using the BuildingBlockInsert event. You can create new building blocks, delete building blocks, and manage building blocks programmatically. However, building block are also programmable. The incredible flexibility that building blocks provide help you to create custom solutions without writing code. For example, you can have a building block named "Title" that has a type of wdTypeBibliography and a category of "Book Titles" and another building block named "Title" that has a type of wdTypeBibliography and a category of "Movie Titles" and then you can have yet another building block named "Title" that has a type of wdTypeCustomHeaders and a category of "Book Titles" and so on. Types and categories are explained later in this topic.īecause you can organize building blocks into types and categories, building blocks can be incredibly flexible. A category can be any string that you define. However, you are not limited to just the categories that are included in these templates. By default, the templates that are included with Word have building block categories like "General" and "Built-In". These types help you to define and organize your building blocks and, although you cannot create additional building block types, you can create an unlimited number of categories for each type.Ĭategories are composed of an unlimited number of strings that you can define to organize your custom building blocks. There are 35 different WdBuildingBlockTypes constants. Although there are a limited number of these constants, that number is not small. Building block types are composed of a limited number of WdBuildingBlockTypes constants. NameĪ collection of building block entries in a template that are of the same type and category.Ī collection of all the building blocks in a template.Ī collection of building block categories.īuilding blocks are organized by type and category. The new objects and collections are listed in the following table. These enable you to create an organizational structure that works for your specific needs and to modify the structure for a specific solution.

The building blocks object model includes three new objects and four new collections. When used together with content controls, building blocks can enable you to develop powerful solutions quickly and easily. A custom building block helps users insert rich content anywhere in a document by using a formatted drop-down list. However, with building blocks, you can organize entries in a way that enables you to determine how a user uses them.

Introduced in Word 2007, building blocks are similar to autotext entries in previous versions.