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For the new Add-ins for Office please also add the office-js tag to your question. Microsoft Visual Studio provides project templates you can use to create application-level add-ins for Microsoft Office 2010 and Office 2007. You can use add-ins to automate Office, extend Office features, or customize the Office user interface.

Add-ins for Office are a new way to create extensibility solutions for Microsoft Office. These Add-ins can be run as a taskpane on the side or inside the document dependent on the application.

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is a set of development tools that allows the development of Office automation solutions (add-in or document customization), using .NET and the Visual Studio IDE.

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How to get mouse click event on the Inbox pane when a user selects an email

I am creating a addin for Office 2007 using C#. This addin is responsible to display email header information in a new pane whenever a user clicks on email from email list within Inbox pane. Now I am not sure how do I get mouse click event on the…
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Outlook Mac App auth token mismatch

I am implementing an add-in for Outlook, the add-in gets an attachment and sends it to my server for processing. It works flawlessly on https://outlook.office.com but fails to run Outlook 2016 for Mac. Here is the API I am trying to access: var…
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Office VSTO add-in possible permission issues - HRESULT 0x80004004 (E_ABORT)

We've developed a C# Office VSTO add-in, that communicates with a running Outlook instance (or starts a new one), and it is showing signs of having permission issues on some customers PCs while trying to create Outlook tasks or appointments... The…
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Cookies are not Accessible in the Office Outlook AddIn

I am developing Addin for outlook, following is my issue problem statement: IE & Safari by default third party cookies are disabled, I am not able to set the cookies of my application because it is treated as third party, so I am launching the model…
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Access to Outlook RestAPI from an Outlook web Add-in

I developed an Outlook Web Add-in that is working fine. It's a Taskpane that is available in compose mode of appointments and that collects event's data, adds a few ones and send that all to an API somewhere. What I would like to do now is to…
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Get the Storage location of Powerpoint add-ins Mac

I have to add the powerpoint Add-in to Powerpoint Mac from my cocoa application.I already adding the .ppam file from my cocoa application through below code NSString *pluginPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Kahani2016"…
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X-Frame-Option DENY error when AAD sign-in in office add-in

I'm working on build Office add-in with Adal.js for AAD integration. And my add-in requires some permissions. When I open add-in in OneNote and try to call login from adal.js, it request login.microsoftonline.com and gives X-Frame-Option Deny…
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Setting width of Office add-in task pane

Is it possible to set the width of a Outlook add-in when it gets loaded up. Right now when I click on my addin button on the ribbon, the task pane shows up on the right with a width of about 437 pixels. I would like to increase that width to…
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How to add tabs to PowerPoint 2010 that call macros

I have created a pptm file with macros that open certain pptx templates. I then created a new tab with buttons for opening the files. I attached the macros I created to those buttons. All works great as long at my pptm file is open. But after I…
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Add a "Connect a cloud service" option to Word on iPhone & iPad

Microsoft Office applications on iOS can open documents from a cloud service, such as OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, SharePoint, etc: In the Windows desktop version of Microsoft Office you can add your own options to this list using registry keys. Can…
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Dynamic content in Add-in command with ribbon dropdown menu

Is there a way to display dynamic content in a ribbon dropdown menu with Add-in Commands? I think this is not achievable at the time of the writing. In addition, if the items themselves cannot be dynamic is it possible to have at least dynamic…
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Task Pane Addin for outlook Web app

By command Add-in, task pane is going to appear to the right side of outlook desktop app. Similarly, is it possible to have task pane to appear to the right side in the Outlook Web app? Thanks in advance.
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Assigning Custom Unique IDs to Word 2013 OpenXML Elements

TLDR/Question How can I best assign unique IDs to (ideally all) of the elements in the XML that describes a Word document such that I can read/write those unique IDs from a Word (2013) Add-In? Additionally, solutions describing ways I can get a good…
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Add a custom Ribbon group to an existing custom Ribbon group in word 2007

How can I add a new group to an existing (3rd party) custom ribbon tab add-in? I know that I can add to out of box ribbons by specifying the Tabs idMSo value but how do I do that for a custom ribbon tab. I have already tried the ID value of the…
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How can you add a Custom Panel in a Visio 2013 add-in?

Recently I wrote an outlook add-in which has a ribbon.xml file for an extra ribbon, context menu's, etc. I also added an extra panel docked on the right of my window. Now I've begun some research as on how to create add-ins for Visio. The…
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