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Is it possible to call Word from an Excel Office Script and compare two versions of the same word document?
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Is it possible to create a .docx file from an Excel Add-In written in office.js?
My use case would be to open an Excel file (on Windows, so the host is an Excel Application), open the Add-In and the Add-In creates a Word document based on data within the Excel file.
From the things that I've seen, it is not possible to call the Word.run() host function from inside a Excel Add-In. I will always get an error that the namespace Word is unknown.
Is this even an intended feature to make 'cross-host calls'?
I had almost the same question: How to get the active PowerPoint presentation from Excel in office.js? and got the answer:
An Office add-in can only work with the Office application (Excel,
Word, PowerPoint, etc.) in which it is open. It cannot reach outside
the Office application to work with a document in another Office
application.
Eventually I moved back to VSTO and C#
I have noticed that when users have the Windows file explorer preview pane enabled and then view a Word or Excel file, that my VSTO addin is started. Further my addin starts again when the user double clicks on a excel or word file.
What properties in Word and Excel do I need to check at startup to know that it is the preview pane?
For people's reference I did find a discussion on this for Powerpoint in this SO question.
When Word and excel are started by the file explorer as a preview then what I have found is that you can check for a commandlinearg of -Embedding
Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().Contains("-Embedding"))
Detecting Automation of Excel is where I found this answer. This question is about automation.
Also when a user embeds for example Excel in Word and then edits the embedded Excel the VSTO addin will start multiple times. You can check for the -Embedding arg for this as well.
Typically the ribbon bar is not visible when Office applications are used for rendering documents in the Windows explorer. You may use the following code to check that:
Application.CommandBars("Ribbon").Visible
I am trying to convert an excel with internal links(i.e. links to different places within that same excel) to a pdf. I have gone through the several posts available online in this regard and couldn't seem to find any proper solution for such a conversion. The solutions provided mostly works for the external hyperlinks and not the internal one's. Is it even possible to do so? Is there any software that might be able to achieve this functionality?
Basically, I am looking to migrate whole of the excel workbook to one single pdf such that every link between different worksheets in that workbook still works. For example, if I have provided a link in worksheet one that points to a named section in worksheet two, I would like this relation to be maintained within pdf as well. So, in the resulting pdf when I click on the link, it should take me to that named section location in the pdf.
Solution to keep internal and external links that works:
Install Office 2013/2016
Install Adobe Acrobat PRO 11 (for Office 2013) or Adobe Acrobat DC (for Office 2016)
Open Excel file and use "Save as Adobe PDF" entry from the File menu. Screenshot below. This pops up another dialog where you select sheets for saving.
Main idea is to have Adobe Add-in active inside the Office ribbon and File dialog.
Works like a charm! Finally!
I need to know for a school project how Excel work. Precisely I need to know what kind of structure is behind an Excel file and how the Excel program work with this file.
I know Excel is a Microsoft propriety and it' s not Open Source so I know I can' t find too much on this argument... But everything that can help me to understand how excel work it' s useful.
If I could not find something about Excel I will try to take a look at Open Office or Open Document format. So even some information about this will be real useful.
Thanks to all
You can find details of the MS Office BIFF file formats here in the microsoft.com library, while the Office Open XML format is published here on the ECMA site and here in the microsoft.com library.
You can find specifications for the OpenDocument format used by Open Office on the OASIS site
It is simpler than you may think.
An excel file is just a zip file of multiple XML documents. Each XML document corresponds to one spreadsheet in the Excel file.
You will find the XML sheets at xl\worksheets inside the zip folder.
You can scripting reading and writing to it.