Understand Pane in Microsoft Word using VBA, C#, VB.Net code example

Pane

What is Pane in Word? Pane refers to frame under which the document is embedded. Word has Pane object which is inherited from Window object. We can perform various automated tasks with the Pane object as listed below:

Methods
- Activate
- AutoScroll
- Close
- LargeScroll
- PageScroll
- NewFrameset
- SmallScroll
- TOCInFrameset
Properties
- Application
- DisplayRulers
- BrowseWidth
- Creator
- DisplayVerticalRuler
- Document
- Frameset
- HorizontalPercentScrolled
- Index
- MinimumFontSize
- Next
- Pages
- Parent
- Previous
- Selection
- View
- VerticalPercentScrolled
- Zoom

Lets take an example where we want to show Rulers in active document by putting some code:

Code example

Public Sub DisplayRuler()
    'Create application variable
    Dim oApp As Application
    'Bind reference
    Set oApp = Word.Application
    
    'bind pane reference
    Dim oPane As Pane
    Set oPane = oApp.ActiveWindow.ActivePane
    
    'Toggle ruler
    oPane.DisplayRulers = True
End Sub

Output

Prerequisites

C# code example

private void btnProtect_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
{
    //Bind application reference
    wordApp.Application oApplication = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application;

    //Binding Window reference
    wordApp.Window oWindow = oApplication.ActiveWindow;

    //Bind pane reference
    wordApp.Pane oPane = oWindow.ActivePane;

    //display ruler
    oPane.DisplayRulers = true;
}

Vb.Net code example

Private Sub btnShowHideRulers_Click(sender As Object, e As RibbonControlEventArgs) Handles btnShowHideRulers.Click
        'Bind application reference
        Dim oApplication As word.Application
        oApplication = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application

        'Binding Window reference
        Dim oWindow As word.Window
        oWindow = oApplication.ActiveWindow

        'Bind Pane object
        Dim oPane as word.Pane
        oPane=oWindow.ActivePane

        'Display ruler
        oPane.DisplayRulers=True
End Sub

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