Our Excel-based add-in was recently upgraded to work with both Excel and Word. Initially, we created a separate add-in for Word, but our submission was rejected and we were asked to combine both submissions into a single one:
This add-in appears to be a duplicate of your Excel add-in already submitted to AppSource. Duplicate add-ins are not permitted on AppSource. Please combine support for all clients required in one add-in submission.
We did that but immediately faced another issue. Our add-in has a dependency on WordApi 1.3 and ExcelApi 1.7. Unfortunately, there is no way to put both requirements together in the same add-in. It makes a list of supported hosts empty because none of them obviously support both APIs. So we made a submission without those requirements set in the manifest and made a comment about it in test notes. Unfortunately, our submission was rejected:
Your add-in is not working in the following: • Word 2013 client on Windows 7 • Excel 2013 client on Windows 7 (Note: The add-in framework uses Internet Explorer 11 to run the add-in) If you do not support 2013 SP1 because you are using an API only available in 2016/Online, you must put these apis in the requirements tag in your manifest.
We are in a deadlock now. It seems there is no way to meet those requirements. We sent an e-mail to Office Validation Team asking for clarification, but haven't heard back from them yet.
How do we specify that the add-in works in Office 2016 (Windows/Mac) and Office 365, but not available in Office 2013? Our App ID is 42949677685.
