The default width of the task pane in Office add-ins is quite small, making styling difficult when you want to display more content in it. At a 1366x768 resolution, for Excel desktop the width of the task pane is 320 pixels.
It would be nice if we could customize the default width of the task pane from the manifest or via the Office JS API.
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Would love to see this in Word, Excel and Outlook - we're having to move away from the old COM addins. Having the taskpane a little wider would go a long way to improving our user experience.
I would really like to have this feature. Most of my VBA add-in projects have a way to size the dialogs and remember their last size and position
In addition to setting the default width, my company needs to be able to set the width programmatically. In our VSTO add-in, we remember the user's last task pane width and update to that the next time they use the add-in. This is a critical need for our Office Add-ins task pane add-in as well.
It would be very beneficial and have better UX to customers on this.
Or at least have the ability to resize it by dragging the edge of the taskpane, in the same way that you can resize an add-in inside of the desktop version of the PowerPoint / Word / Excel apps.
This would be an great enhacement. I need it for word add-in.
Need this for Powerpoint addin as well. The task pane width is fixed and quite small in the browser version. Would be good to have a way to set the width programmatically
Please 🙏
Would be great to have this in Word too.
It is required, please include this support.
