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Office : How to create a Spinner/Numeric up-down textbox?

I'm currently using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) for MS Powerpoint 2013 in Visual C# to create a ribbon.

I want to create a Spinner or Numeric up/down textbox as shown below but I couldn't find any sort of plugin/tools to do this.

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Solution

  • It wasn't available in 2007 or 2010 and that doesn't seem to have changed in 2013. That link does have a workaround though, using buttons.

    <group id="Group1" label="Group1">
  <editBox id="Editbox1" label="Editbox1" getText="Editbox1_getText" onChange="Editbox1_onChange"/>
  <box boxStyle="vertical" id="Box1">
    <button id="spinUp" label="&#9650;" onAction="spin_onAction"/>
    <button id="spinDown" label="&#9660;" onAction="spin_onAction"/>
  </box >
</group >

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    It is fairly common to see controls used by an Office program that aren't available through VSTO, unfortunately.