What's new in Word development
Custom Themes
Create and apply custom themes to your document, ensuring consistent styles, fonts, colors, and layout.
Batch Formatting
Apply complex formatting (e.g, changing heading styles, font size, line spacing) to multiple documents at once.
Dynamic Content Insertion
Insert dynamic content like tables of contents, lists of figures, or cross-references that automatically update based on the document’s content.
Advanced Table Styling
Automatically generate and format tables based on the content, with features such as alternating row colors, column formatting, or conditional formatting rules.
Document Outlining
Automatically create an outline of the document's structure, showing headings and subheadings, to help in document navigation and organization.
Interactive Forms
Create interactive forms with fields (text fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists) that can be filled out by other users.
Smart Tables
Automatically format and populate tables with data from external sources like Excel, databases, or APIs.
Version History & Rollback
Track versions of the document, allowing users to revert to earlier versions or compare changes across different revisions.
Change Tracking with Metadata
Add custom metadata to tracked changes or comments, such as the name of the reviewer, time, or status (approved, pending, etc.).
Extend Excel functionality with Office Add-ins
With the Office Add-ins platform, you can extend Excel's functionality through a web app that runs within the Excel client on multiple platforms such as Windows, Online, Mac OS, iPad. Unlike COM and VSTO add-ins, Office Add-ins can do almost anything a webpage can do inside a browser. This technology is enabled using the JavaScript API for Office known as Office.js.
Access Excel data with Microsoft Graph
Use the Excel REST API in Microsoft Graph to extend the value of your Excel data, calculations, reporting, and dashboards. With Microsoft Graph, you can read and modify Excel workbooks that are stored in OneDrive, SharePoint, or other supported storage platforms. By issuing REST API requests to Microsoft Graph, your web or mobile application can access Excel objects.