Office Add-ins PnP is a community driven effort that helps developers extend, build, and provision customizations for the Office platform. The source is maintained on this GitHub repo where anyone can participate. You can provide contributions to the samples, reusable components, and documentation. Office Add-ins PnP is owned and coordinated by Office engineering teams, but the work is done by the community for the community.
| Date | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| July 6, 2021 | Use Outlook event-based activation to indicate external recipients (preview) | This sample uses event-based activation to run an Outlook add-in when the user changes recipients while composing a message. The add-in also uses the appendOnSendAsync API to add a disclaimer. |
| April 5, 2021 | Use Outlook event-based activation to set the signature | This sample uses event-based activation to run an Outlook add-in when the user creates a new message or appointment. The add-in can respond to events, even when the task pane is not open. It also uses the setSignatureAsync API. |
Check out these samples if you want to take advantage of the shared runtime for your Office Add-in.
| Date | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2021 | Create custom contextual tabs on the ribbon | This sample shows how to create a custom contextual tab on the ribbon in the Office UI. The sample creates a table, and when the user moves the focus inside the table, the custom tab is displayed. When the user moves outside the table, the custom tab is hidden. |
| November 5, 2020 | Use keyboard shortcuts for Office add-in actions | Shows how to set up a basic Excel add-in project that utilizes keyboard shortcuts. Currently, the shortcuts are configured to show and hide the task pane as well as cycle through colors for a selected cell. |
| March 15, 2020 | Share global data with a shared runtime | This sample shows how to set up a basic project that uses the shared runtime. The shared runtime runs all parts of the Excel add-in (ribbon buttons, task pane, custom functions) in a single browser runtime. This makes it easy to shared data through local storage, or through global variables. |
| March 9, 2020 | Manage ribbon and task pane UI, and run code on doc open | This sample shows how to create contextual ribbon buttons that are enabled based on the state of your add-in. It also shows how to use the Office.js API to show or hide the task pane. This sample also demonstrates how to run code when the task pane is closed, such as on document open. |
| Date | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| June 8, 2021 | Single Sign-on (SSO) Sample Outlook Add-in | The sample implements an Outlook add-in that uses Office's SSO feature to give the add-in access to Microsoft Graph data. Specifically, it enables the user to save all attachments to their OneDrive. It also shows how to add custom buttons to the Outlook ribbon. |
| November 12, 2019 | Get OneDrive data using Microsoft Graph and msal.js in an Office Add-in | Learn how to build a Microsoft Office Add-in, as a single-page application (SPA) with no backend, that connects to Microsoft Graph, and access workbooks stored in OneDrive for Business to update a spreadsheet. |
| May 1, 2019 | Office Add-in auth to Microsoft Graph | Learn how to build a Microsoft Office Add-in that connects to Microsoft Graph, and access workbooks stored in OneDrive for Business to update a spreadsheet. |
| May 1, 2019 | Outlook Add-in auth to Microsoft Graph. | Learn how to build a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that connects to Microsoft Graph, and access workbooks stored in OneDrive for Business to compose a new email message. |
| Date | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| December 28, 2020 | Custom function sample using web worker | This sample shows how to use web workers in custom functions to prevent blocking the UI of your Office Add-in. |
| January 29, 2020 | Use a shared library to migrate your Visual Studio Tools for Office add-in to an Office web add-in | Provides a strategy for code reuse when migrating from VSTO Add-ins to Office Add-ins. |
| October 2, 2019 | Integrate an Azure function with your Excel custom function | Learn how to integrate Azure functions with custom functions to move to the cloud or integrate additional services. |
| September 30, 2019 | Dynamic DPI code samples | A collection of samples for handling DPI changes in COM, VSTO, and Office Add-ins. |
| July 19, 2019 | Use storage techniques to access data from an Office Add-in when offline | Demonstrates how you can implement localStorage to enable limited functionality for your Office Add-in when a user experiences lost connection. |
| May 1, 2019 | Custom function batching pattern | Batch multiple calls into a single call to reduce the number of network calls to a remote service. |
To learn more about Office Add-ins, see the Office Add-ins documentation.
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