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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It would be a great upgrade, i am also looking at adjusting taskpane width by default in excel/powerpoint
It would be great if this feature added in outlook custom add-ins. When will we expect this feature be provided for users?
That would be nice for all Office apps! Please, do it! It's very annoying resizing the taskpanes all the time...
This would be a great addition for our users to not have to resize the task pane every time that they open the add-in.
There is no doubt this would be a huge benefit! We have to manually adjust the width of a Microsoft add-in each time we launch it. Why not just let the user/developer set the default width that is ideal?
It would be nice to allow setting a fixed Width or minimum/max width for the taskpane.
It'll be very helpful to have it!
There's even a manifest entry all ready and waiting to be used: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/manifest/requestedwidth?view=excel-js-preview It "just" needs to be supported for task panes.
Great idea, it will be nice to have the same feature also for Word addin.
