

The dictionary provider's webpage then updates to show the definitions for the selection to the user.


In a typical dictionary task pane add-in, a user selects a word or phrase in their document, and the JavaScript logic behind the add-in passes this selection to the dictionary provider's XML web service. This article shows you an example of a task pane add-in with an accompanying web service that provides dictionary definitions or thesaurus synonyms for the user's current selection in a Word 2013 document.Ī dictionary Office Add-in is based on the standard task pane add-in with additional features to support querying and displaying definitions from a dictionary XML web service in additional places in the Office application's UI.
