Skype for Business Persistent Chat Lag After Upgrading to Office 2024 LTSC
Hi everyone, We're currently using Skype for Business 2015 with Persistent Chat. Everything was working fine when we were on Office 2016. However, after upgrading to Office 2024 LTSC, we started experiencing significant lag in Persistent Chat. The issue…
Office Development
excel vba activateworkbook.save changes date format
I'm running a macro that creates a blank workbook using Workbook.Add and saves it in a specified location as a CSV (FileFormat:=xlCSV). It then copies data from another workbook into this sheet with formatting (Paste:=xlPasteValuesAndNumberFormats). Then…
Office Development
Are there printable study guides
Where can I access printable study guides for the information that I will be learning in each course?
Office Development

With office.js, can Microsoft please consider allowing dialog boxes opened via displayDialogAsync to exclude the title bar with url?
When a user opens a dialog box vis displayDialogAsync in an Office Web Add-In, the browser interface shows the url in the title bar. This url is unknown to the user in a task pane. Is there a way to hide the title bar?
Office Development

Ways to use a script to deploy an Outlook add-in with unified manifest?
I have an Outlook add-in that uses a unified manifest, and I want to deploy it to just my organization or my customers' organizations (so I don't want to put it in AppSource). Also, I'd like to be able to do this with a script. How can I do this? It…
Office Development
Is Microsoft 365 based on a current version of Office? Do users have to have any other version of Office installed to use Microsoft 365?
I use a book publisher's programs (i.e. McGraw Hill Simnet & Cengage MindTap) for online classes at the college level. The publishers keep asking me to upgrade to newer versions of Office. If we're using Microsoft 365, isn't that the neest version…
Office Development

How to obtain an access token for microsoft Graph API in an outlook Add-In using Federated credentials
Hi Microsoft Team, I am developing a React.js-based Outlook Add-In and for that I have been setting up a federated credential using GitHub Actions as the external Identity Provider (IdP) for an application in Microsoft Entra ID. What additional steps are…
Office
Outlook
Microsoft Graph
Office Development
Outlook Management
Cannot Insert Excel in Word with Office 365
When adding an Excel object in Word, it fails and returns the following error: The program used to create this object is Excel. That program is either not installed on your computer or it is not responding. To edit this object, install Excel or ensure…
Office Development
Word Management
Office-Addin-TaskPane-React Dependency Vulnerabilities
Dear Microsoft, For an Outlook add-in in our organisation we use 'Office-Addin-TaskPane-React'. Following dependencies listed in package.json and package-json.lock have security vulnerabilities: Security IssueComponentCVE-2025-27152axios :…
Office Development
Is adding just a Hosts element as a child element under version 1.0 of VersionOverrides a valid way to prevent our addin from appearing in Outlook for Mac
By accident, we found that if we add a Hosts element as a child element of VersionOverrides version 1.0 in the manifest, it will prevent the addin from appearing in Outlook for Mac and classic Outlook for Windows. See below ... <VersionOverrides…
Office Development
How to Simulate Fallback for Unsupported Nested App Authentication in Outlook Add-in?
I'm currently implementing Nested App Authentication for an Outlook Add-in, and the authentication flow is working as expected when supported. However, I need to test the fallback mechanism that should trigger when Nested App Authentication is not…
Office Development
HTML tag, <details/> and <summary/> not working in outlook
i am trying to send a HTML body as an email. i am using <details> and <summary> tag to create a dropdown. but i am not able to see the dropdown in outlook desktop app. here is the code i am using import smtplib from email.mime.multipart…
Outlook
Office Development
Outlook Management

Is there a way to trigger Outlook-Add-Ins (Web) from external? (Custom event activation)
I am currently working on Office365 add-ins development and their communication via asp.net interfaces which are registered with entra id. I would like to open email templates from an external program. Templates can be created via ms-graph or by the…
Outlook
Microsoft Graph
ASP.NET API
Office Development
Add a new tab in the web outlook
Hi, Aim: I want to add a new tab in the web outlook, the tab will be in the ribbon. There is any way to achieve that the tab will includes a buttons that trigger an API for sending email or do something else. Thanks in advance,
Office Development
makeEwsRequestAsync- 9020 error and mail item is null Officejs Outlook
Web View : mail item instead of 9020 GenericResponseError. Outlook Classic: mail item is null
Office Development
Microsoft EXCEL issue. Anywhere else on my PC i can copy a number and a drop down will pop up with how I can make a phone call
So as stated above I can copy a number anywhere and a pop up will appear and I can click an icon and make a phone call. I used to be able to do it in excel on the actual cell but cant anymore after my it reset my pc but I can do it everywhere else. But…
Excel
Office Development
Need information on Microsoft Message Trace GCC Support to request OAuth Token
I'm exploring MessageTrace report API: https://reports.office365.com/ecp/reportingwebservice/reporting.svc/MessageTrace, I can see that, to generate OAuth Token I need to make a GET call to: https://login.windows.net/<tenant-id>/oauth2/token . Does…
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Exchange Online
Office Development
Microsoft Exchange Online Management
Exchange Server Development
How to Reset MFA 365 Developer Program Tenant Admin Account
Hello I have a subscription to Microsoft 365 for developers. I am trying to log in with the administrator account but I no longer have the MFA active on my cell phone. Is it possible that from the support area they can perform a reset of MFA for this…
Office Development
Attempting to save Options always results in error message "the end date you entered occurs before the start date"
Problem is ... In Outlook, File | Options, any attempt to save by clicking the OK button (even if you have made no changes) results in the error message "the end date you entered occurs before the start date" and no changes to the Options can…
Outlook
Office Development
Outlook Management
Sideloading unified manifest Add-ins - Required office app versions?
The documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/convert-xml-to-json-manifest states: "Add-ins that use the unified manifest can be sideloaded only on Office Version 2304 (Build 16320.20000) or later."** …