Feature Requests and Feedback
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Office Add-ins should run in Edge, not IE11
At the moment Word runs Add-ins in IE11
IE11 doesnt support ES2016, and is therefore much harder to develop for than all of the other newer browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge).
Word should run Add-ins in Edge
268 votesWe are actively working on this feature and will share more details on availability as soon as we can.
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Programmatically disable/hide the Ribbon menu
We are in the process of development for Office 365 based Add-ins for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
It would be really nice, if we could have a way to disable/hide the ribbon buttons based on some data against that particular user.28 votesNaveed, thanks for your feedback! We are at the early stages of designing and prototyping this feature. We look forward to sharing the details as soon as we can.
As always, when the design draft is ready, we’ll present it for your review under the open-spec branches in the following repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs.Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Need content Controls found on desktop Excel and Word applications to be avaiable in web version of Excel and Word
Content controls like found in the desktop version of Excel Word need to also exist on the Web version of Excel Word and function the same. The same controls should be able to be used on the desktop version of Excel and Word and the Web version of Excel and Word. This would allow moving Excel and Word files containing content controls between the desktop and Office 365's OneDrive and SharePoint sites. The Workbooks and documents with content controls would work the same in both environments (desktop and Online). This is a critical need!
46 votesJim, thank you for your feedback! Please note that there’s no notion of content controls in Excel. Content controls feature is only available in Word.
Also, the content control API is already available in Word Online. However, content controls are currently not editable in Word Online, and this is currently being worked on. We’ll keep you posted when this is available.
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Office Extensibility Team -
Opt out or in of saving add-in to document
Saving a document with an add-in panel open, saves the add-in along with the document.
The next time the document is opened the add-in opens with it. If the add-in is not installed it will be suggested to the user.
In cases where an add-in generates content for the user the add-in may not be meant for user's clients in which case it would be great to have this functionality as either opt out or opt in.
6 votesThank you for the feedback! We’re happy to let you know that we’ve started work on this.
As always, we present the design for review under the open-spec branches of this repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs. Please review it and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
API to point to next and previous paragraph from the current paragraph
It would be very useful for processing large document to have the ability to access previous and next paragraph from any paragraph object.
Thanks6 votesThank you for the feedback! We’re happy to let you know that we’ve started work on this.
As always, we present the design for review under the open-spec branches of this repository: https://github.com/officedev/office-js-docs. Please review it and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team -
Word Add-In (Office 365) allways available.
I want to have my Word Add-in automatically loaded the next time I start Word. Now, I have to add the Add-in every time I start Word.
20 votesGerben, thank you for your feedback! We’re glad to report that we have started work on this. We’ll let you know when this is available,
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Office Extensibility Team -
13 votes
Thank you for your input, it is greatly appreciated. We are actively adding support for custom and built-in properties so you don’t have to manipulate XML. We’ll let you know when this is available!
Thanks,
Office Extensibility Team -
5 votes
Vimal, thank you for your feedback! This behavior is by design and we will update our documentation to reflect this accurately.
We have started work to add another property that can return null. We’ll let you know when this is available,
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Office Extensibility Team -
Bug to fix: Html ordered list last element rendered out of list when bound to RichText Content Control
There is a bug I've discussed on MSDN forum:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/cb7b7f3b-c59b-4868-b80f-da6c82b45231/office-api-rich-text-content-control-html-coercion-problem-ordered-listsBasically, when html for an ordered list passed with coercion type html into a rich text content control, last element of list rendered as a seperate paragraph.
A fix would be nice.
Thanks
8 votesBogac, nice catch! We’ve verified that this is a bug and we’ve started work to address it. We’ll let you know when this fix is available.
Thanks again for reporting it!
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Office Extensibility Team
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