Build powerful applications for Office

Learn how to create a simple license management system to manage Add-ins sold in Microsoft AppSource.

Learn how to create an add-in that uses the `LocationRelation` and `compareLocationWith` APIs of the Word JavaScript APIs to perform a search and replace that skips some ranges based on their location relative to other ranges.

This sample shows how to add keyboard shortcuts to your Office Add-in.

This month's community call features updates on Excel shortcut customization APIs (introducing 3 new APIs to assist with keyboard shortcuts management), an SSO update for Office Add-in (call to action: add new SSO service in Azure for your SSO enabled add-ins, and Outlook event-based activation on Mac (announcing Mailbox 1.10 APIs and Event-based Add-ins are GA in New Outlook for Mac). This month’s Community spotlight recognizes Eric Legault and Maarten van Stam for their continued contributions to this community. Q&A both at end of call and in chat throughout call. The call was hosted by Alex Jerabek (Microsoft). Recorded January 12, 2022.

What are Office Scripts, target user and usage scenario? In this 19-minute developer focused demo, Nancy Wang explains Office Scripts buttons and how you can get involved evolving Office Scripts. Create buttons in Excel using the Action Recorder (capture actions and record them into a script – great for seeing how the automations are built – includes comments!) or the Code Editor (JS/Type Script call Office Script APIs). Also, Power Automate integration. Automations sharable within tenant. This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on December 14, 2021.

A new Single Sign-on (SSO) service will replace the existing one for Office Add-ins that are used in Office on the web. This new service is aimed at providing better reliability and supporting additional environments.

In this 21-minute Developer-focused demo, Juan Balmori Labra highlights new features for Outlook add-ins that improve collaboration in a hybrid world. Mailbox 1.11 with more Events is GA and Smart Alerts preview is now available. Event-based add-ins Smart Alerts for Outlook = better emails. Demo of Event-based add-ins for new events including handling email signatures for external and internal recipients. A second demo shows why Smart Alerts help users send better emails. This PnP Community demo is taken from the Office Add-ins community call – December 2021, recorded on December 8, 2021.

This sample demonstrates authentication in Microsoft Teams apps.