office-js

Background We are having users complain about links ( <a href="..."> ) from our Outlook addin not opening in their default browser. Some see that Google Chrome (default) is opening, which is the intended behavior. But some see that IE is opening regardless of what the default browser is. I suspect this may have something to do with the version of Outlook - but I haven't been able to pinpoint how and what. Maybe it has got something to do with the IE version on the computer since the addin window should be running in IE. Perhaps even the version of Windows. The users that have seen the issue so

I want to add field code using word JavaScript API. I checked the API documentation but I found nothing regarding this. Is there a way to do it in this API? There is no direct support in the API for adding fields, i.e. you will have to create Open XML containing the field. You can then insert this Open XML in your document (something a long the lines of the following untested snippet): // Run a batch operation against the Word object model. Word.run(function (context) { // Queue a command to get the current selection and then // create a proxy range object with the results. var range = context

I'm creating an outlook add-in and use the OfficeJS API in React app. In there I want to load a specific set of features for the compose mode and another set of features for the read mode. So my question is, how to see in which mode I'm currently on? In the manifest.xml file you should have different ExtensionPoint for compose and read view as follow ... <ExtensionPoint xsi:type="MessageReadCommandSurface"> </ExtensionPoint> <ExtensionPoint xsi:type="MessageComposeCommandSurface"> </ExtensionPoint> Each of this sections have to have Action tag with ExecuteFunction or ShowTaskpane type. If you