Word 2007 Content Controls

posted by  hjwin (10)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I really like the concept of content controls in Word 2007 for a couple of reasons; robustness and data-binding. They give you very granular control over which areas of a document can be modified, what content is allowed and whether those areas can be deleted.

Not only that you can map content controls to XML data (no need for a schema - just give me some XML data to bind to). This opens up some very interesting capabilities, especially if you combine them with the Document Information Panel (based on InfoPath) and harness InfoPath's data validation and connectivity. Very quickl