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Introduction to Excel 2016 Add-ins
Office 2016 Add-ins are extentions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Add-ins are composed of:
- Manifest file
An XML file that defines various settings, including description and links to all the add-in files.
It is used by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to locate the Add-in resources.
The manifest file can reside on a local directory or is published on the Office Store. - Webpage files
Files that compose the web app (HTML pages, JavaScript code and images).
All the files need to reside on a web server.
Add-in Examples
These examples have been made available for programmers that want to create specialized add-ins to retrieve information from Banana Accounting.
You need to insall the add-ins on a web server.
- for Excel:
- Account Card report to create an Excel worksheet with details of an account.
- Retrieve Table report to create an Excel worksheet with a full table taken from the accounting.
- for Word:
- Account Card report to create a Word document with details of an account.
Resources
For more and detailed information about the developing of the Office Add-ins, please visit https://github.com/BananaAccounting/General/tree/master/OfficeAddIns.