{"id":593,"date":"2017-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T20:37:52","slug":"add-in-commands-in-office-for-mac-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/add-in-commands-in-office-for-mac-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Add-in commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office for Mac now in preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-content\">\n<p>We are happy to announce the availability of the developer preview of add-ins commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office for Mac.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/05\/Addin20Commands20Mac20Preview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.office.com\/docs\/add-ins\/design\/add-in-commands\">add-in commands<\/a>, you can create cross-platform add-ins that extend the Office UI, including the Office ribbon. You can create custom groups on existing tabs, create a custom tab, or extend certain context menus. The same add-in can work seamlessly across Windows, Office Online, and Office for Mac.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/make-your-add-ins-available-in-the-office-ribbon\">benefits<\/a> to using commands and now you can also use commands on the Mac. To get started with add-in commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac preview, see the instructions at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/Office-Add-in-Commands-Samples\/blob\/master\/Tools\/MacDevPreview.md\">Developer Preview: Add-in commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office for Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Add-in commands for <a href=\"https:\/\/.msdn.microsoft.com\/outlookformac\/2016\/12\/07\/add-ins-for-outlook-2016-for-mac-now-in-insider-fast\/\">Outlook 2016 for Mac<\/a> are also available for Insider Fast users.<\/p>\n<p>Happy coding!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce the availability of the developer preview of add-ins commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office for Mac. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69076,"featured_media":25159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-add-ins","tag-excel"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We are happy to announce the availability of the developer preview of add-ins commands for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office for Mac. <\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}