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This generalized tag is used for any MS Office related development. You can include this tag if you automate, extend or customize Office, create apps, COM libraries, dlls, add-ins, etc. It is expected that questions about Office development relate to specific programming problems.

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Word Add-in CustomXMLParts data modelling and/or performance optimization

Environment: Mac 10.12.6, Word 2016 (16.11.1), @microsoft/office-js "^1.1.4" I was wondering if there were any guidelines or best practices in terms of how to use CustomXMLParts in order to maximize read/write performance, or if there is an 'ideal'…
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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office. Is it worth using?

It seems like deployment of VSTO code is very cumbersome. My use case is I need to enforce a certain content structure in word. Am I better of doing it all in VBA?
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Uncaught ReferenceError: Type is not defined in sp.runtime.js

I am trying to use the taxonomy Picker example from Office PnP. I just want to bind one field to one managed metadata term. The errors I got are here: http://screencast.com/t/nOaTusUH4V The code I have is: …
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Create a folder in SP2013 using REST and HTTPClient

I am trying to create a folder in SP2013 using HTTPClient and REST. The following are the requirements & constraints on the application I need to create a folder in a 2013 document library using REST. CSOM is not allowed. The program must be a C#…
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Using Office UI Fabric React components in ScriptLab

In a simple Test Web App I was able to create a UI Fabric React output by using imports like this: import React from 'react'; import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'; import { DefaultButton } from 'office-ui-fabric-react'; and rendering in…
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How to port existing vb .net office add-ins to work with office for mac?

I have an Office Word add-in that I wish to make it work with Office Word 2016 for Mac. I tried looking into official Microsoft documentation and could not find anything. I want to reuse as much code as possible while still having the extension to…
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What is the best way to create user help documentation for an Excel VBA solution?

VBA solutions can vary widely in size. I would like to add user help documentation to all solutions but the level of effort to create and deploy the help needs to match the size of the solution.
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How to verify existence of a table with a given ID in a word doc in C# VSTO 3

I want to check for the existence of a table with a given ID in a word document in C# (VS 2008) Visual Studio Tools for Office (version 3). Obviously I can iterate through the document's Tables collection and check every ID, but this seems…
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How to insert dropdown or checkbox in Excel using Javascript API?

I'm following the doc (https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/excel/excel-add-ins-reference-overview) to build an Excel add-in. The add-in needs to populate an Excel table column with either dropdown or checkbox for the user to select actions to…
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Webhooks Sharepoint: Subscribing to Document Change

Are there Webhooks available for Sharepoint APIs which can be used to notify when there are changes in a document stored in Sharepoint.
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Replacing part of Outlook client's window with a custom form

I am developing a VSTO application for Outlook client. I am trying have my form open in the part of the Outlook client window which is highlighted in red in the following image: I think I can't use the form regions because they replace the view for…
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Sharepoint Online Can't create DocumentSet with CSOM Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.DocumentManagement.dll

I am using the OfficeDev.Core to create DocumentSet "Folder" in sharepoint Online in a Provider Hosted Add-in in C#. I am using the lastest CSOM C# library for Sharepoint On line : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll…
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How to remove Outlook add in

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 community to create an Outlook add in via the Office Developer Tools When I run debug Visual Studio, it opens Outlook and I can see my plug in. When I close Outook and Visual Studio, and restart Outlook, I can still see…
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Inserting svg in office-js

Background I am developing an Office add in using the Word Javascript APIs to insert some charts in the document. My Current approach is as follows: Generate SVG image in the task pane=> draw image on canvas with canvg => get canvas image as png =>…
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In our library, how to tell webpack to skip dependencies?

We have a library that is traditionally client-side only. It uses HTTP Request (or several other dependency libraries) to make REST calls. When using the library, user will initialize with a particular request provider and off they go. We use…
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