Content controls help you to create rich, structured blocks of content and are designed for use in templates that insert well-defined blocks into your documents, creating structured documents.Ĭontent controls are ideal for creating structured documents because content controls help you fix the position of content, specify the kind of content (for example, a date, a picture, or text), restrict or enable editing, and add semantic meaning to content.

Individual content controls can contain content such as dates, lists, or paragraphs of formatted text. Using content controls to structure a documentĬontent controls are Microsoft Word entities that act as containers for specific content in a document. Here are some common scenarios for structured content in Microsoft Word:Ī legal firm needs to create documents that contain legal language that should not be changed by the user.Ī business needs to create a proposal cover page where only the title, author, and date are entered by the user.Ī business needs to create invoices where the customer data is included in the invoice at predefined regions. Structured documents are documents that control where content can appear on a document, what kind of content can appear in the document, and whether that content can be edited. This topic provides information about changes to content controls in Microsoft Word 2013 and the document scenarios that those changes enable. Learn how Microsoft Word 2013 content controls enable a larger range of structured document scenarios.

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