ContentControl.insertParagraph and ContentControl.placeholderText throws exception in Word Online about office-js-docs-reference HOT 4 CLOSED

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@sanjayp-mds -- a member of the product team has added information to OfficeDev/office-js#53 regarding this issue. Essentially, the behavior that you've reported is a current limitation of the API in Word Online. That is, in Word Online:

• The contentControl.insertParagraph() method is only supported if that content control encompasses one or more paragraphs in entirety.
• Setting the placeholderText property for a content control is not currently supported.

I am re-opening this issue here in the office-js-docs repository so that we can track the need to update the docs with this information. Thanks again for reaching out about this.

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Transferring this issue from OfficeDev/office-js into OfficeDev/office-js-docs-reference.

Tracking internally with: 2769690.

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These doc updates have been applied; docs will be updated the next time the API reference docs are regenerated (most likely later this week).

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/word/word.contentcontrol?view=office-js#placeholdertext
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/word/word.contentcontrol?view=office-js#insertparagraph-paragraphtext--insertlocation-

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