Office add-in app types and platform support

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Office add-in App Types

The Office Add-in platform supports three types of apps (also known as apps, add-ins): The Office Task Panel (task pane), the Office Content app (content add-in), and the Office Mail app (mail add-in).

1. Task Panel Application

The Task Panel app is displayed on one side of the Office document and can be used to enhance the viewing or authoring experience of the document, such as implementing the Wikipedia dictionary in a Word document (click to view ), code format assistant, ) and other applications.

2. Content Application

Anywhere in an Office document, such apps can enrich the content of a document or browser-based Access database. For example, the people Graph we saw before to visualize data ( Click to view ).

3. Mail application

appears above the body of the message, and can be used to implement mail-related apps. For example, FedEx Tracking ( click to view ) can be based on the message in The Courier number, query package details, users do not need to switch to the browser to login to the FedEx website for inquiries. Applicable user scenarios for mail apps:

• End users need to use Office Apps when they view or compose e-mail and appointments
• You need to decide whether the message app portal should be displayed based on the message context. For example, when you find address information in the body of a message, the Map Mail app portal is displayed, and when the user clicks the portal, the Mail app launches and the matching address information is displayed on the map.
• Applications are not only available on desktops, but also on tablets or smartphones

Currently, if your mailbox is set up on Exchange Server, you can create a mail application for the Outlook rich Client, Outlook Web App, and OWA for devices. In the Mail app, you decide whether you should display this message app portal in a message by detecting contextual information about the message (for example, if the user is staying in the Compose mail interface, a specific message type, whether there are attachments, address information, task suggestions, meeting suggestions, messages, and some string patterns in the body of the appointment).

Three types of apps currently supported on the Office platform

The following table summarizes the different Office software support for three app types.

Office Software Types	Office Software	Whether the task pane application is supported	whether the content application is supported	whether the mail application is supported
Office PC Rich Client version	Word 2013 or later	Is	Whether	Whether
	Excel 2013 or later	Is	Is	Whether
	PowerPoint version 2013 or later	Is	Is	Whether
	Project 2013 or later	Is	Whether	Whether
	Outlook 2013 or later	Whether	Whether	Is
Office Web Edition applications	Word Online	Is	Whether	Whether
	Excel Online	Is	Is	Whether
	PowerPoint Online	Is	Is	Whether
	Access WEB Application	Whether	Is	Whether
	Outlook WEB Application	Whether	Whether	Is
Office RT Edition applications	Word RT	Is	Whether	Whether
	Excel RT	Is	Is	Whether
	PowerPoint RT	Is	Is	Whether
	Outlook RT	Whether	Whether	Is
Office for MAC version application	Outlook for Mac	Whether	Whether	Is
OWA for Devices (OWA for Android phones, OWA for IPad, OWA for IPhone),	OWA for Devices	Whether	Whether	Is

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OWA for Devices

Outlook Web Access is referred to as OWA as a Web Access feature of a managed postoffice based on Microsoft hosted Exchange technology

OWA for IPhone and OWA for IPAD

Developing Office-related applications

Office add-in app types and platform support