Context We are working on an add-in focused on Formatting. Our specific need involves identifying textual and stylistic discrepancies within shapes, like font or size inconsistencies. The Office JS API limits us.   Pain It's not possible to detect formatting zones within a shape's TextRange.   Example Imagine a scenario where the text range reads "Hello World!" with the second word in bold: Accessing the root text range's formatting doesn't reveal this bold formatting. While getSubstring offers a workaround, determining the correct indices to identify the bold section becomes a guessing game. Obtaining a comprehensive view of formatting requires scanning the entire text range character by character.   Request Could we streamline this process by accessing a list of formatting ranges? ... View more

Please bring the function for BuildingBlocks from macro/VSTO into the OfficeJS package.   We need to be able to insert BuildingBlocks that exist in the document's template into any given .range-object within the document. ... View more

Hi Everyone,   Would anyone be able to point us in the right direction. We're developing a Word add-in for the pharmaceutical industry where business continuity is critical.    Just wondering if there is a way to test Word Online before it's released? We'd like to test our add-in with the new version so that there is no downtime.   Nice to join this community :) ... View more

Currently when using setSelectedDataAsync we can’t add an „ALT“-Attribute to the Image. As far as we know there is no useful alternative. We are looking forward to this feature. It would be really useful to be able to create, maintain further Information to the Image added. ... View more

I'm developing an add-in using the Word JavaScript API, and I need the ability to work with protected Word documents programmatically. In VBA and VSTO, I was able to unprotect these documents, alter them, and then protect them again. Please implement the Document.Protect method (Word) | Microsoft Learn and Document.Unprotect method (Word) | Microsoft Learn methods in Word's JavaScript API so that I don't have to do this through VBA or VSTO. It looks like this was already done in Excel (see ExcelScript.WorksheetProtection interface - Office Scripts | Microsoft Learn). ... View more

I would like to see the event times in my timezone in Outlook Calendar all the time regardless of the timezone used when event was created.   For example:  Event is created with UTC timezone but my timezone is UTC+2 (this can happen when using different integrations or calendar syncs which create events for me in my calendar)   Current behavior: Open Outlook Calendar - event times in UTC+2 Click on the event and a little popup is shown - event times in UTC+2 Click edit and the short form for editing is displayed - event times in UTC+2 Click on more options and the full form is displayed - event times in UTC     ... View more

1. Please add ability to read from which shared mailbox message came from when getting messages by getSelectedItemsAsync. Currently, it's not available.   2.  ItemId from SelectedItemDetails is invalid when item comes from shared mailbox. It is not possible to get email by this id through Graph API. I had to bypass this by using filtering by internetMessageId.   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77220976/graph-api-reading-message-from-shared-mailbox-with-only-message-id-without-ma/  ... View more

With the current version of Office js API it is not possible to track whether an object was removed from the slide. Would it be possible to have an event listener triggered when object is removed from the slide or when slide itself is removed? Ideally this event should return data about removed object. use case: User removes image directly from the slide, currently corresponding object in the add-in will still be present as we are not able to detect removed objects ... View more

Hello!   These are two features which we are extremely interested in. I've been asking in many Community Calls but I haven't had any ETAs yet, so hopefully posting here helps.   Please could we have a consistent method for Word, Excel and PowerPoint to save a file? Word and Excel have ‘context.document.save()’ and ‘context.workbook.save() but they lack similar options for behaviors (eg. skip the save dialogue). PowerPoint does not have context.presentation.save() yet. Please could we have an equivalent method for all three (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with similar options/behaviors? This is really needed for developers. Please an ETA would be appreciated.   Similar to the previous question, could we have an equivalent method for all three (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to close files with similar options/behaviors? This is also really needed for developers. Please an ETA would be appreciated.   Thank you so much in advance! ... View more

Unfortunately, the API for managing item categories in compose mode in Outlook on the web is currently not supported:    In Outlook on the web, you can't use the API to manage categories applied to a message in Compose mode. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/outlook/office.categories?view=outlook-js-1.8#outlook-office-categories-getasync-member(2)   The lack of this API results in a bad experience for our users, since it works in Outlook for Mac und Windows. ... View more

With the current Office js API possibilities, to replace an image, we need to remove it and insert it again, which impacts previous z-index set by a user, as new object will always be uploaded on the top of the stack. Would it be possible to replace an image without removing it and inserting?   use case: User stacks few images on the top of one another, our add-in enables user to refresh an image to import newest data, however after refreshing bottom image, it will end up being the top one, covering the images that should be on the top. This creates unnecessary effort for a user as he needs to adjust z-index every time each object is refreshed ... View more

Hi!   I would like to request a feature to be able to change worksheet zoom level via the Javascript API in Excel Add-in.   Currently we can only change the pageLayout print zoom scale, not the view zoom scale.   Thank you! ... View more

Currently only rich text content controls are available through Word API (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/word/word.contentcontrol?view=word-js-preview#word-word-contentcontrol-type-member) Could you please add also other types of content control?  In particular in my company we need DropDown and CheckBox. ... View more

OWA and new Outlook app does not allow to open addin when multiple emails are selected in case when we use SupportsNoItemContext. Icon on ribbon is missing.     Please add icon on ribbon or make it work like SupportsMultiSelect:       ... View more

Often we need to explain, discuss, agree on subjects that need to be supported by diagrams. These diagrams are often subject to changes as result of the interactions with the different stakeholders. It would be important to have the ability to add these diagrams directly in the loop workspace pages, instead of inserting images. ... View more

Our clients often need to download formidable spilling ranges from their ERP systems in a single custom function call.    The minimal repro repository mentioned in this bug: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues/2786 emulates the GI() function in Velixo add-in.   It's one of our most popular functions in our legacy XLL product and a big selling point for our company. It routinely returns dozens of thousands of rows which the customer pivots, sorts, filters, and aggregates in Excel.   It needs to work in exactly the same way across the legacy/new office.js based product, otherwise we simply can't promote migration to the new cross platform solution.   There is no workaround to the problem which makes it so urgent and painful: we need backwards compatibility with our old product so it needs to remain a single custom function call. As per MSFT in the GitHub issue, there is no addin <-> host request batching within function calls, only across multiple different function calls.   IMO the best solution to this would be to abstract away any payload size limit for CF return values from the add-in developers — and automatically batch those requests in chunks.   ... View more

Office JS Word and Excel APIs support writing document custom properties. Add similar support for PowerPoint Office JS API ... View more

Currently, it is not possible to pass a formula to the Office API and receive an evaluation of it. There are workarounds, like writing to an empty cell, or writing to a scoped name. Both solutions are not directly pretty.   Ideal API:   // ... await Excel.run(async (context) => { let sheet = context.workbook.worksheets.getActiveWorksheet(); const evaluatedFormula = await sheet.evaluateFormula(`=SUM(A1:A5,Sheet2!B1:B5)`) // best possible return value /* { "value": 165, "type": number, "cells_included_in_calculation": ["Sheet1!A1:A5","Sheet2!B1:B5"], "precedents": ["Sheet1!A1:A5","Sheet2!B1:B5"] // can deviate from cells included, in case of formulas like SUMIF / SUMIFS / COUNTIF / COUNTIFS / INDEX / ... } => in case of an error, it could simply return one */ } // ...     ... View more

Right now in our add-in we are using Office.context.document.getSelectedDataAsync to get information about the number of the currently selected slide, however as far as we know, it is not possible to use this function with 'CoercionType.Image'. We want to be able to get shapeId of selected object on DocumentSelectionChanged event and the only way of doing it is by calling context.presentation.getSelectedShapes(), loading items, syncing context, loading id for each shape and syncing again. This might be a performance issue if we decide to perform all these actions each time selection changes.   Is there any more efficient way of reading shapeId along with other properties from currently selected images?   use case: User wants to click an image on the slide to highlight corresponding object tile on the side panel in the add-in, it is not possible right now as we are not able to determine which object is currently selected ... View more