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PowerPoint API

Build out the specific host PowerPoint API with near complete parity to the control that was available in VSTO add-ins for PowerPoint. We have an add-in we want to build out in the new Web Add-in platform, but can't due to the extremely limited capabilities of the current Office.js API. You've had years to work on it, at least be more forth coming with where things are in development.

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  • Philipp Tekampe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In an Office community call in the fall of 2019 they said that they hadn't been working on the PowerPoint API at all and that it probably wasn't going to change soon due to the lack of interest. When I asked why they won't at least open source it so that we get a chance to work on it, they answered that in such a case they had to open source all of MS Office's source code which MS were not willing to do.

  • Jørgen Bye commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great to get some info on which specific API's for PowerPoint you're working on adding.

    Why has the PowerPoint API has been kept so limited for all this time. Security issues?

    Office Add-ins is a great step forward from VSTO/VBA, so any insight into your plans for the platform would be great!

  • Vladimir commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need better API for Powerpoint ASAP.
    You should at least provide the basics, like text colouring, setting fonts, backgrounds etc.

    Thanks in advance.

  • Manuel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need to set the document properties (built-in and custom) from a PowerPoint add-in. Any plans for this API?

  • FC commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    LindaMcFail, any news on a date to have the: insertFileFromBase64?
    Thank you!

  • Collin Stowell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Cannot echo this enough, could use all the same features as Hlynur mentioned:

    - Adding custom data to Shapes, Slides and Presentation (similar to what is possible with the Tag property on Content Controls in Word)

    - Manipulation of Document Properties. Both built-in and custom.

    - Importing of all the slides in a base64 file after the current slide of the current presentation. Similar to insertFileFromBase64 in Word:
    context.presentation.insertSlidesFromFileFromBase64(base64File, 'after')

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am not able to access the shapes in powerpoint which is mandstory for the project to continue. Please provide API for web adins powerpoint

  • Philipp Tekampe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    During an Office community call in March I asked the question if anyone was working on a PowerPoint specific Javascript API. They said that no one was working on it and we should voice our demand louder if we wanted that to change.

  • Arvind commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there any update or plan to develop Host-Specific API for Powerpoint in office js?

  • Arjun Yadav commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi All

    I am creating a PowerPoint Web Add-in plugin to publish presentation (All ppt slides) to the server as an image and video format.
    Is there any javascript API (office.js) for this?

    Thanks.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This js office api direction is more-or-less abandoned, no news about it in the last 2 years, even though there was a new office version released.

    We are stuck at VSTOs (which is also extremely limited and make very trivial tasks complicated, brittle or outright impossible).

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any news or plans (in the coming year) from Microsoft POV? Is there going to be a PowerPoint API (like there is for Excel and Word)?

    Microsoft is pushing to go from VSTO to Web Add-ins, but very basic functionalities like adding a new slide or selecting the Title- and Text area (within JS) are not even possible. I really want to develop Web Add-ins, but without the basic functionalities I just won't be able to and have to stick to VSTO. So any updates or plans @Microsoft?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is really necessary! I built a VSTO Add-in for PowerPoint, but I can't publish it to the Office Store without being able to make it a Web Add-in, or at least I am not finding a way to do that...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Powerpoint is the most used office application after Outlook in an enterprise. Hard to grasp that all other applications have future driven app apis and PowerPoint not.

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