I would like to develop Add-in for office Word for Mac (2011 and later). But I cannot find any manuals about Add-Ins development.
Can anybody know how to develop Add-Ins for Office for Mac?
It will be good if anybody suggest me link of Example. I have tried but didn't get any sample.
The good news is that you can use almost all the APIs documented here for MAC as well!
You also want to read this article about how to try your add-ins in MAC or iOS.
Finally make sure you are on the latest possible build! (15,22 as of right now).
Happy coding!!!
The process for building JavaScript add-ins for Mac is pretty much the same as building them for other platforms. There are some specific instructions for debugging on Mac.
However, Office Add-Ins for Mac are only supported starting with Office for Mac 2016 (and even then I believe it needs to be a recent update).
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I Have an add-in that is working on Excel in chrome, excel in Edge, but doesn't work in excel desktop.
Any clues?
Thanks
In the article amitklein gave, it says:
Office will still use the EdgeHTML base for add-ins until a build of Office 365 that supports Chromium is installed on the computer. We expect these builds to ship in 2020. They will likely appear in the Insiders channel in the first half of the year.
I haven't found the Chromium based Office 365 in insider channel so I think the version for now is still EdgeHTML based and Excel uses Edge Legacy.
With the introduction of Excel on Android and iOS, I'm not sure what's the correct method of creating a UDF (User Defined Function) that will work across all versions of the Office 365?
I want my UDF to work on iPad, Android as well as Desktop. What's the official Microsoft way of supporting all of these versions of Office for UDF's?
There is no way to support all these platforms. It will work on the Desktop editon of Office.
I'm looking to convert our library of MS Office files into PDFs on a Linux server. What I'm looking for is similar to this.
Anyone know of one not so costly?
unoconv is free, it uses OpenOffice to do the conversion. Unfortunately OpenOffice doesn't import MS Office files perfectly so YMMV. Another option is to use OfficeToPDF, this is however an Windows application that requires Office to be installed. You could probably solve this by running Windows in a virtual machine on your server and remotely control it.
You may consider Aspose.Words for Java, Aspose.Cells for Java, Aspose.Slides for Java; these components can convert Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files to PDF on Linux.
Disclosure: I work as developer evangelist at Aspose.
I've been working intermittently on an Excel spreadsheet for a customer that does some pretty intense calculations. We implemented a security procedure using VBA... At first the requirements were relatively simple, and the overall lack of security in a spreadsheet was discussed and well understood.
Since then the customer has decided that he would like to have the sheet a bit more secure. Under normal circumstances I would simply disable the developer menu via code. Unfortunately I just recently found out that the customer, and many of his customers, are using Mac Office. (There are some customers that are even using 2008 and they found out the hard way that 2008 stopped supporting VBA)
My question is; is it possible to disable access to the Visual Basic editor in Mac Office in versions Pre 2008, and versions 2011 and after since from the research I've done so far points to a return of VBA support in Mac Office in 2011.
Unfortunately I do not have access to a Mac Office version to even really look through the application and or/test different solutions. In Windows it is possible to right click the VBA project and choose protection from the VBAProject Properties and choose "Lock project for viewing". Does this option exist and is it effective in Mac Office?
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm pretty sure you can lock projects in Mac Office the same way you can in Windows. Keep in mind that a project that has been locked in one version of Excel cannot be unlocked with a different version. So, if your customer needs to be able to unlock, they will need to use the same version of Excel you used to lock it.
We have a SharePoint WSS site and some of our users on on the Mac OSX platform. Are there any tips or tricks to get a similar experience to Windows with document shares and calendars on the Mac?
Edit: Browsing a SharePoint WSS site on a Mac, whether using Firefox or Safari, has a very similar look and feel as it does on Windows IE. The similar experience I am looking for has to do with integrating the calendars, document shares, etc. into the desktop.
For example, with IE you can go to a calendar and select "Actions -> Connect to Outlook" and it will make the calendar visible and manageable from within Outlook.
Is there any way to get the Mac to work similarly?
Unfortunately, the "full" Sharepoint Experience is limited to running Internet Explorer 6/7 and Office 2007.
On the Mac, I recommend using Firefox (Camino?) which seems to work a bit better than Safari.
Edit: When you say "Similar experience", what exactly are you missing? I don't have any Mac here, but I was under the impression that Office 2008 will have a working integration with Sharepoint as well.
Office 2008 allows limited connectivity to MOSS. However there is no Mac OS browser yet that is completely compatible to MOSS.
I do have it on good authority the Microsoft Mac BU team is working with the MOSS team to see this changing in future versions of the platform, specifically around the Safari support.
ActiveX is used to enable the bridge between MOSS and Office, and as ActiveX is only on Windows, you will find that you cannot get the full experience if you do not use Windows as your OS.
Yes, Sharepoint looks to client installs of Office applications and Active X in order to fully integrate.