Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a commercial suite of document editing applications that allow users to create text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other types of documents. The Office suite has a public API that allows the development of extensions and integration with other applications.

Advantages

  • A comprehensive set of objects, methods and properties are available in the API
  • Different integration points allow the development of many extension types
  • The API is well documented

Disadvantages

  • Some features are available only in .NET, while others only from VBA
  • The .NET APIs require the .NET runtime to be installed

Components

  • Word
  • Excel
  • Powerpoint
  • Access
  • Outlook
  • OneNote
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