Office Add-ins developer platform community call – April 12th, 2023

Office Add-ins developer platform community call - April 12, 2023

The call was hosted by Preethika Kiruveedula, Product Manager, Microsoft.

Word Extensibility APIs (Preview) - April 2023. Yun Wang, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft.
Top 5 AppSource Validation Errors December 2022 - February 2023.Elizabeth Samuel, Senior Technical Writer, Microsoft.
Q&A. See question and answers at end of call and in chat throughout call. Preethika Kiruveedula, Product Manager, Microsoft.

Word Extensibility Updates - April 2023. Results and insights from two surveys. Structured document content usage in Word add-ins. Questions on types of content controls, control events, and types of fields used. New capabilities highlighted: plain text content control API, new fields, and six events in preview. Auto launching add-ins. This survey assessed an understanding of auto launch for add-ins and scenarios where add-ins should be automatically launched and automatically installed.
Top 5 AppSource Validation Errors December 2022 - February 2023. The presenter focuses on causes and how to avoid top AppSource validation errors affecting Office Add-ins’ submissions and she highlights supporting AppSource policies. In the last three months, top validation errors included: App does not work on Office for Mac, functionality doesn’t work as described, Outlook add-in doesn’t work on Safari, privacy policy unavailable or insufficient, and app provides insufficient value.

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What is the recommended front end technology to create an Excel add-in? React, Angular, Blazor? Thanks in advance!

You can use your preferred framework to develop an Excel add-in. To learn more, see Develop Office Add-ins. We also invite you to try out the Use React to build an Excel task pane add-in and Use Angular to build an Excel task pane add-in tutorials.

When will the FileInsertBase64 be released into full production?

We’re estimating the FileInsertBase64 method to be released in production in the third quarter of this calendar year (July-Sept 2023).