Issue when trying to unregister an event following the documentation examples

[frankybboy96]

Article URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/word/word-add-ins-events#remove-an-event-handler

Issue

The documentation gives instructions on how to register and then unregister events, but the provided code example isn't valid and doesn't work even in the most basic sense.

the eventContext.context provided as a param in the Word.run has a type mismatch and is not working.

trying to work around the issue by casting doesn't resolve the issue and just leads to the Word.run to throw

also the example provided doesn't take into account the possibility that eventContext could potentially be undefined or null, which is also wrong but easily fixed by adding some if(eventContext) where needed.

Questions

Is there another approved way of registering/unregistering events that I haven't found in the documentation?

Is there other ways to get notified of document changes that do not rely on the events?

[frankybboy96]

When can I expect to get any news relating to this?

[Rick-Kirkham]

@frankybboy96 This is a holiday week in the USA. @ElizabethSamuel-MSFT will be back next week. I the meantime, please install the ScriptLab tool from AppSource and try the sample in this screen shot. The code is similar to what is in the article. It will be valuable to see if the sample works in Script Lab or gives you and error. (It works perfectly for me.)

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