How to detect keypress events in word VSTO add-in using C#?

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My question is simple as I want to detect key press events like KeyUp, KeyDown, KeyPress in VSTO Words Add-In while development using C# in VisualStudio2015 and run other functions as per KeyCode.

As per MSDN documentation, there are no such events for VSTO Add-In but they are giving some others events thats are like them as Document.SelectionChange Event and ApplicationEvents4_Event.WindowSelectionChange event but they are not as per requirements.

So is there any way to make it as per my question in easy way using C#...???

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There are many related questions asked on StackOverflow but none of them is as per my question.

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Posted 12-Oct-16 4:51am

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Updated 12-Oct-16 7:03am

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-12T07:03:00

You're going to have to hook the keyboard events for the window. To do that in C#, you need to use the Windows API via Interop Services. The pinvoke.net website can help you find the appropriate API function prototypes and constants, but you'll have to do some digging on google to find out how to put it all together.