Word office add in

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hello Aspose community,

I’m interested in developing a Word web add-in using Aspose. Can anyone provide guidance on how to get started with this project and possibly share some sample projects or code snippets to help me kickstart my development?

I appreciate any assistance or insights you can provide!

Thank you

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@abhishekouta Generally, Aspose.Words is a .NET library and you can use it in your add-in project just like any other .NET library. Please see Microsoft documentation to learn how to create add-in projects:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/develop-add-ins-visual-studio

Also in our GitHub there is outlook plugin, developed using Aspose.Words. Probably the provided sources might be useful for you:
https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET/tree/master/Plugins/Outlook/Aspose.Words%20Metadata%20Cleaner

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Thank you for your helpful information!

I noticed that the provided example is for VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office), but I’m looking to develop my Word add-in using Office JavaScript (Office.js). Can you confirm if it’s possible to achieve similar functionality with Office.js, or if there are any considerations I should be aware of when making this transition?

Additionally, I’m wondering if there are any templates or resources available specifically for creating Word add-ins with Office.js. Having a starting point or template would be a great help in getting my project off the ground.

Your guidance on these points would be greatly appreciated!

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@abhishekouta I am afraid, we did not test Aspose.Words with Office.js and there is no templates or resources available specifically for creating Word add-ins with Office.js using Aspose.Words. But as I have mentioned Aspose.Words is a simple .NET library, so you can use it in your project as any other .NET library.

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As I found one documentation, which containing some code snippet to get task pane using C#.
https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/work-with-office-add-ins/

Now question is that, Is there any option to do the following:

  1. Creating word web add in ( plugin ) with task pane using some custom component. As I can see in attached documentation, there is option to do that. However, I am not able to find out thorough steps to create one, can you help me with that or provide me good sample ?

  2. Is it possible to create task pane using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS or any other JS framework ? if so, kindly provide me reference.

  3. If above technologies is not available, then is there any other good alternative to get custom task pane using aspose ? If it is there, help me to find it out.

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@abhishekouta I have created a task WORDSNET-25915 in our defect tracking system to investigate possibility of using Aspose.Words for creating Word add-in using Office JavaScript (Office.js). We will keep you updated and let you know once analysis is done.

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can you provide me a full code particularly for that project ? which is used to refer in below docs
https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/work-with-office-add-ins/

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@abhishekouta You can find sources in our github:
https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-.NET/