OfficeMenu element

Defines a collection of controls to be added to the Office context menu. Applies to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote add-ins.

Add-in type: Task pane

Valid only in these VersionOverrides schemas:

• Taskpane 1.0

For more information, see Version overrides in the manifest.

Associated with these requirement sets:

• AddinCommands 1.1

Attributes

Attribute	Required	Description
xsi:type	Yes	The type of OfficeMenu being defined.

Child elements

Element	Required	Description
Control of type Menu	Yes	A collection of one or more Control objects.

xsi:type

Specifies a built-in menu of the Office client application on which to add this Office Add-in.

• ContextMenuText - Displays the item on the context menu when text is selected and the user opens the context menu (right-clicks) on the selected text. Applies to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
• ContextMenuCell - Displays the item on the context menu when the user opens the context menu (right-clicks) on a cell on the spreadsheet. Applies to Excel.

Example

<OfficeMenu xsi:type="ContextMenuCell">
    <Control xsi:type="Menu" id="Contoso.myMenu">
      <Label resid="residLabel3" />
      <Supertip>
          <Title resid="residLabel" />
          <Description resid="residToolTip" />
      </Supertip>
      <Icon>
        <bt:Image size="16" resid="icon1_16x16" />
        <bt:Image size="32" resid="icon1_32x32" />
        <bt:Image size="80" resid="icon1_80x80" />
      </Icon>
      <Items>
        <Item id="myMenuItemID">
          <Label resid="residLabel3"/>
          <Supertip>
            <Title resid="residLabel" />
            <Description resid="residToolTip" />
          </Supertip>
          <Icon>
            <bt:Image size="16" resid="icon1_16x16" />
            <bt:Image size="32" resid="icon1_32x32" />
            <bt:Image size="80" resid="icon1_80x80" />
          </Icon>
          <Action xsi:type="ShowTaskpane">
            <SourceLocation resid="residTaskpaneUrl2" />
          </Action>
        </Item>
      </Items>
    </Control>
</OfficeMenu>