Our community of developers use Stack Overflow, GitHub, and Microsoft Q&A to connect with other developers to ideate, get clarifications, and submit queries. You can also get latest updates in our Microsoft Office Add-ins community call.
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Post API questions to Stack Overflow using the office-js tag, and also include the outlook-web-addins tag if your question relates to Outlook add-ins. Please note that Stack Overflow has guidelines such as requiring a descriptive title, a complete and concise problem statement, and sufficient details to reproduce your issue. Feature requests or overly broad questions are off-topic; new users should visit the Stack Overflow Help Center for more details.
You can also post questions using the Office Development tag on Microsoft Q&A.
Send general questions about the Office Add-ins platform to Office Add-ins Community Help. We encourage posting questions on the channels mentioned here and using email only if no other mode of communication is applicable.
External learning resources
The following books and classes provide add-ins information from a different perspective.
Michael Zlatkovsky's book Building Office Add-ins using Office.js describes the principles and design patterns shared by the 2016 APIs for Excel, Word, and OneNote. At the time of writing, Michael was a member of the Office Extensibility team at Microsoft, but this book is independently authored without input from Microsoft. Neither Microsoft nor Michael collect any profit on this book, as proceeds are donated to disaster-relief and humanitarian charitable causes.
The Office add-ins platform enables you to extend the functionality of Office applications including Excel, Outlook, and Word. In this learning path, you'll explore various ways you can use add-ins to extend and interact with Office applications.