Microsoft Office Add-Ins for Developers

Learn how to automate business tasks for users of Microsoft Office applications by building Office Add-ins.

Introduction

• Microsoft Office add-ins
• What are Office add-ins?
• Get the most from this course

1. Getting Started

• Office extensions
• How Office extensions work
• The Office.js libraries
• Introduction to ScriptLab
• Limitations and documentation

2. Building Add-Ins with Visual Studio

• Create an add-in with Visual Studio
• Add-in manifests
• Add-in web projects
• Deploying and debugging
• Add-in commands
• Create a new control
• Convert from JavaScript to TypeScript

3. Using Other Libraries and Tooling with Add-Ins

• Open web development toolchain
• Create an add-in with Yeoman
• Sideload your add-in on the web
• The Angular framework
• An example in Angular
• The React framework
• An example in React
• Office UI Fabric
• Design guidelines
• Design toolkit
• Consuming external services

4. Add-Ins for Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote

• The Word API
• An example glossary add-in for Word
• Create the glossary add-in
• Explore glossary add-in code
• Tour the glossary add-in
• OneNote
• PowerPoint

5. Add-Ins for Excel

• The Excel API
• A built-in sample in Excel
• Repurposing
• Excel custom functions

6. Add-Ins for Outlook

• Introduction to Outlook add-ins
• Sample Outlook add-in
• Outlook contextual add-ins
• Working with Microsoft Graph
• Actionable messages

7. Distributing Your Add-In

• Add-in distribution options
• Sideloading and trusted locations
• Publishing to the App Catalog
• Publishing to the Store
• Licensing
• Centralized deployment
• Updating your add-in

Conclusion

• Staying up to date