April’s call featured the following topics: An overview of the Office Add-ins platform a look at some of the new functionality in Excel API requirement set 1.7; some programming techniques toimprve and optimize performance of the Excel JavaScript APIs; an overview of what’s new, coming soon, and on the roadmap for Outlook Add-ins; and tools and resources available to Office Add-ins developers.

1. Office Add-ins
Community Call
April 11, 2018
8:00 AM PST

2. • https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall
• Quarterly cadence
• Next call: Wednesday, July 11
• What’s new
• Meet the product teams behind Office Add-ins
• Technical deep dives
• Q&A

3. Call agenda

4. Kim Brandl
Sr. Dev Writer
Doug Mahugh
Sr. Dev Writer
Tong Jiang
Software Engineer
Sudhi Ramamurthy
Sr. Program Manager
Wey Love
Sr. Program Manager

5. Office Add-ins
Overview
Sudhi Ramamurthy, Sr. Program Manager

6. HTML
manifest.xml Your own web app Office Add-in

8. What’s new in Excel
API requirement set 1.7
Sudhi Ramamurthy, Sr. Program Manager

9. Filter
Sort
Worksheet
Functions
Protection
#1.2
Range view
(filtered)
Pivot Table
(refresh)
#1.3
Named Item
(write)
Settings
Events
#1.4
Application/
Calculate
Worksheet
Workbook
Range
Table
Chart
#1.1
Named item
(read)
Conditional
Formatting
Calculate
(range,
worksheet)
#1.6
Custom XML
Parts
#1.5
New Range
functions
201720162015
#1.7
Events
Styles
Chart
enhancements
Password
Protection
Copy Worksheet
Gridlines, tabs,
etc.
2018

10. Available on Win32, Excel online, Mac and iPad.
Customize appearance, copy and protect, gain deeper understanding of data.
• Chart trendline
• Add/set chart series
• Axis unit/title
• Title and data label set
• Access built-in properties
• Set custom properties
• Apply built-in style
• Create/apply custom styles
• Set tab color
• Turn gridlines on/off
• Freeze rows, columns
• Read frozen pane
• Copy worksheet within
same workbook
• Password protection
• Workbook protection

11. New event APIs Object level
onActivated
onDeactivated
Worksheet
WorksheetCollection
onAdded WorksheetCollection
onChanged Worksheet
Table
TableCollection
onSelectionChanged Worksheet
Table
Make your solutions more interactive. More features
• Get range as image
• Get active cell
• Refresh data connections
• Get workbook name
• New range methods
• Get/Set hyperlink
• Named item formula and array-
values, type
• Range format additions

13. Performance optimization
using the Excel JavaScript API
Doug Mahugh, Sr. Dev Writer
Tong Jiang, Software Engineer

14. Customer-Driven
Data-Driven

16. • https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues/12
• This issue led to both internal performance optimizations
in Excel, and publication of best-practices guidance.

17. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/performance

18. Outlook Add-ins
Wey Love, Sr. Program Manager

19. set 1.5
set 1.6

21. Preview

22. Learn & Engage
Kim Brandl, Sr. Dev Writer

23. Learn
• Script Lab: https://aka.ms/getscriptlab
• Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/
Engage
• Stack Overflow (questions): office-js, outlook-web-addins
• GitHub (issues): OfficeDev/office-js
• UserVoice (feature requests): https://officespdev.uservoice.com/

24. Q&A

25. • Recording will be available soon on Office Developer YouTube
• https://aka.ms/OfficeDevYouTube
• Next call: July 11th, 2018
• Submit your questions: https://aka.ms/officeaddinsform
• Add to your calendar: https://aka.ms/officeaddinscommunitycall