#Office js app for office 365 vs 2013 how to#
#Office js app for office 365 vs 2013 download#

We’ll only be targeting Microsoft Word with this app, so only check its checkbox when asked in which Office application your task pane should reflect in. Select Task pane when prompted to choose which app you’d want to create. Start by creating a new Apps for Office project, by selecting the project template in Visual Studio. You also have the choice of creating a new app by using Visual Studio 2013. Creating a Word app using Visual Studio 2013

#Office js app for office 365 vs 2013 download#

This will download and open the project in Visual Studio. You have a choice to either edit the project via the browser or open the project in Visual Studio by clicking on the “Open in Visual Studio” item in the left-hand navigation bar.

Click on the Properties item in the left hand navigation menu and change the application to launch to Microsoft Word. Because we need the app to run inside Microsoft Word, we have to set this in the project properties. This will create a project containing all the necessary HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. Our app will target Microsoft Word, so select Task pane app for Office from the list. This will redirect your browser to then click on the “Add New Project” button in order to create a new App.Ī modal dialog will be shown prompting you to select the type of app you would like to build. You should be presented with the following options:Ĭlick on the “Build an app” button. Creating a Word app using the Napa development toolsĪfter the Developer site has been provisioned, open it in your browser. You have two options when creating an app for Microsoft Office, the first is via the Napa development tools inside your browser and the second is using Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013.

I won’t go into the steps involved in creating such a site as this article on MSDN does a good job of explaining the necessary steps.

Shuffling the selected text using JavaScriptīefore you can start creating and testing your Office App, you need to first provision a Developer site.

We’ll create a Task Pane app for Microsoft Word, similar to the one we created for Google Docs that will allow the user to shuffle either the selected words, sentences or paragraphs in a Microsoft Word document.

#Office js app for office 365 vs 2013 how to#

We thought that after we investigated how to create customization for Google Docs and Google Sheets, it is about time we tackle the Napa Office 365 development tools again. It’s been close to two years since we’ve discussed the release of Office 2013 and the new web-based object model for Office, called Napa, which allows developers to build Office add-ins using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.