IdeasAll Idea StatusesNewNeeds more infoWorking on itDuplicateNot at this timeCompletedTagged:TagTrendingAdd Workbook.calculate() to avoid recalculating all open workbooks Today, the Office.js API exposes Excel.Application.calculate(calculationType), but it recalculates all currently opened workbooks in Excel. This becomes a performance and UX problem when users have m...Ability to Assign Custom Properties or Unique IDs to Individual Cells Summary I'd like to request support for assigning custom metadata — such as unique IDs or arbitrary key-value pairs — directly to individual cells in Excel using the Office.js API. Why This Matt...Office.js API — Open OneDrive Files in Current Word/PPT Instance Currently, Office.js does not provide an API to directly open a OneDrive (or SharePoint Online) file in the current Word/PPT desktop instance. For add-ins that integrate with external systems, this ...Add viewportChanged event to Word JavaScript API In Word add-ins, we often need to react to changes in the user's viewport (scrolling, zooming, etc.). Currently, there's no event to detect when the visible pages change. A viewportChanged event on W...Outlook Monarch: Allow adding shared mailbox folders to Favorites In the classic Outlook I can add Inbox folders of shared mailboxes to Favorites, easily detecting and accessing new emails sent to any of mailboxes I manage. In the new Monarch Outlook, this is no l...Ability to dynamically change ribbon button at runtime Our ribbon button actions are awkward! We need the ability to interact with them more dynamically at runtime. Ideas: Change Office.Ribbon.RequestUpdate() so that it can change a ribbon button's lab...Add a Range API for Outlook add-ins Word add-ins provide the Word.Range API, which allows precise manipulation of document content (selection, insertion, replacement, formatting). Outlook add-ins currently lack an equivalent API, maki...Access to Equations via Word JavaScript API Currently, the Word JavaScript API does not provide access to equations (built using Word’s equation editor / Office Math). This limits the ability to programmatically interact with structured mathem...Ability to disable Copilot Agent / Edit functionality on a sheet + Copilot events We developed an Excel addon which intercepts certain Excel events - sorting of Excel tables, editing cells, etc. on special add-on managed sheets. This functionality is broken when Copilot Agent/Edi...Add ability to label the actions office-js takes on the document in the Undo list Actions performed on a document are added to the application Undo stack. However, the description of the action that you can undo is the same for all actions. Here is a screen shot of Excel after my ...
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