programming task pane

[cssriraman]

I wonder if you can help me!?!?

I have an Oracle application for hospital management. One of the main modules is the clinical process, where the doctor controls all the info related to his patient.
At the end of the appointment, the doctor can generate a MSWord report, which is automatically filled with some info from the database.

But "the customization must improve to higher levels" (at least, that's what my boss told me)! So I developed custom command bars: one with autotext entries, other with typical commands such as save, quit or export data and a final one with info from the database. It is all working well, but now the goal is to use the task pane to present the controls and info I created in command bars.

I'm using word 2002 and the only thing I achieved was to insert some links, based on data from my BD, into the different sections of the "New Document" Task Pane. Found nothing about inserting controls into it! So now I asked for a 2003 installation and started searching on the net: vsto (with action panes), smart documents, smart tags, ibf, vba... too many paths have I found, I clearly need some guidance or I will be eternally doomed in office darkness!!!

I thank all of you who can give some tips (and examples, please!) on this kind of customization...

Hope to hear from you soon.

[RobDog888]

So you now have Word 2003, VS.NET 2003 and VSTO 2003?