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Automate to send bulk Calendar invites through Outlook

Hi There, Here's the deal. For work I need to send out multiple calendar invites at a time (sometimes 30 different meetings in a week). The invitations contain mostly the same information (subject line, location, body of the email), but sometimes they…

Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph
A Microsoft programmability model that exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft 365 services.
11,831 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
Outlook Management
Outlook Management
Outlook: A family of Microsoft email and calendar products.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
5,183 questions
asked 2021-03-04T11:50:13.567+00:00
Nagarjuna Vijayagiri 6 Reputation points
commented 2021-03-08T09:14:17.117+00:00
Jade Liang-MSFT 9,976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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how to fix Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __imp_GetCommPorts

Hi I am trying to find COMs for finding which port is connected to BLE dongle. for finding COMs I used below code and this Error is appeared

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-06T11:05:07.827+00:00
Ensiyeh Pourshojaei 11 Reputation points
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I can't find Taskpane

I'm learning to develop Excel add-in. But I can't find the Taskpane in the Excel. I have tried to search in the home tab and the view tab, but I did not find. My Office is Office2019. Besides, I can't start the project. The error message…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-05T17:03:14.53+00:00
chong guo 1 Reputation point
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VSTO 2019 Project 2016 Professional: Obtain daily resource availability AND overallocations?

Is it possible to obtain time-phased daily resource availability and overallocations using C# VSTO? Using Project, View, Resource Usage: Show Resource Availability per day.

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-05T14:37:50.543+00:00
Stewart 106 Reputation points
2 answers

Access vba - Hourglass while Outlook Opening - Outlook takes forever to open

We just moved to Outlook 365 which takes forever to open. I have a program that puts events into the Outlook calendar. It first checks to see if Outlook is open, and, if it's not, opens it. Because Outlook 365 takes forever to open, I would like to have…

JavaScript API
JavaScript API
An Office service that supports add-ins to interact with objects in Office client applications.
975 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-04T14:21:38.28+00:00
Janet Kalbfleisch 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-03-05T03:03:45.333+00:00
JeffYang-MSFT 6,241 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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How can I tell whether a doc is using Twips as the measurement format?

I have this block of openXML in a Word doc: <wps:wsp> <wps:cNvPr id="29" name="Text Box 28"/> <wps:cNvSpPr txBox="1"> <a:spLocks noChangeArrowheads="1"/> </wps:cNvSpPr> <wps:spPr…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-04T21:42:43.363+00:00
Chris Behrens 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-03-05T01:59:06.43+00:00
Erin Ding-MSFT 4,461 Reputation points
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Project Task Not Populating on Timesheet

I'm trying to set up timesheet tracking for my company on Project Web App. I've established the time tracking however when testing the system I've assigned myself as a resource on a project. That task is not populating on my timesheet. I've saved and…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-04T17:11:47.367+00:00
Nova612 1 Reputation point
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VSTO Outlook Separated Form Region source code

Hello all, I am looking for a source code exemple about how to create a separated form region in Outlook. All examples I found are about side bar or top bar, nothing about separated region. I read some books from Sue Mosher, Lars Powers, Mike…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-04T13:18:58.617+00:00
LBerendsen 1 Reputation point
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Replace text with URL in Word document using Open XML

Hello I have problems with a project where I want to replace som tagged text in a Word document with a clickable URL. The sample code below uses a word document which contains the text [Webpage]. Here is the code with the problem: Imports…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-02-26T07:37:31.44+00:00
Peter Karlström 216 Reputation points
accepted 2021-03-03T10:05:40.69+00:00
Peter Karlström 216 Reputation points
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Link Excel Worksheet in a Word document

What I wanted to achieve : Implement a function in C# which executes similar to the Word object insertion as a link and attach a selected excel file into the word document with 'link to file', so that the changes to the excel source file is reflected…

C#
C#
An object-oriented and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages and includes support for component-oriented programming.
10,842 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-02-22T05:48:09.56+00:00
ApsSanj 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-03-03T09:19:43.197+00:00
Daniel Zhang-MSFT 9,626 Reputation points
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Outlook S/MIME Issues

Not sure if this is the correct channel to report issues discovered while testing Outlook's native S/MIME handling. Some issues seem to affect certain Outlook versions only - possibly fixed or broken along the way as Outlook got updated. Outlook…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-03T01:35:54.54+00:00
Jarrod Wee 1 Reputation point
5 answers

Difference between powershell and remote powershell

If I run the commands below in a local powershell window its working as expected. And if I login remotly to the same machine via Enter-PSSession the commands are not working. I started both powershell sessions in same user context. The output of…

C#
C#
An object-oriented and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages and includes support for component-oriented programming.
10,842 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.PowerShell: A family of Microsoft task automation and configuration management frameworks consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.
5,508 questions
asked 2021-02-22T15:54:39.143+00:00
Artimes 346 Reputation points
answered 2021-03-03T00:10:13.97+00:00
MotoX80 33,376 Reputation points
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Chnage Font color based on Task Status

Hello How can I change the font colour and style (eg bold, italic strikethough) based on the tasks Status. Eg if 'Over Due' - then red font if 'Completed' - then grayed out and strikethrough if 'Due this week' - then blue if 'Not Yet Due' -…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-02-24T23:32:30.5+00:00
Don Bovell 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-03-02T19:14:21.573+00:00
Marcelo Grecco 1 Reputation point
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Outlook VSTO - BeforeAttachmentAdd sometimes is just not fired

Hello, I'm struggling with catching BeforeAttachmentAdd event. Sometimes it's just not fired, and I don't know why. There are no exceptions, event is properly registered but id doesn't fire before adding attachment. Here's my code: using Outlook =…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-02T13:01:53.807+00:00
Michał Kaszta 1 Reputation point
0 answers

Sign an office addin

Hi We have an old c# com excel addin. (not vsto ) We use signtool to sign the addin with extended Sectigo certificate. But still Excel 2016 complains that the addin is not signed. ( when this option in trust center is enabled) Is com addins are …

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-02T11:52:37.82+00:00
Dor Ramati 1 Reputation point
0 answers

Exchange Web Service API life cycle?

Hello folks, Because here comes a deprecation of Outlook V2.0 REST APIs on November 30, 2022. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/outlook-rest-api-beta-and-outlook-rest-api-v2-0-deprecation/ba-p/1898162 I am wondering when is…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-02T10:05:42.02+00:00
Joyce Beck 31 Reputation points
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Office Add-In Support for Word 2013

I've recently started developing an office add-in for Word. My add-In basically inserts html code into word and works as expected on Office 365. Our customer still uses Office 2013 though, and unfortunately the add-in doesn't seem to work in his…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-02T07:06:35.593+00:00
Tim Gerhard 1 Reputation point
0 answers

Outlook V2.0 REST APIs Deprecation inquiry

Hello Microsoft, Recently, we found out that the Outlook V2.0 REST APIs will be deprecated and will not be supported anymore. This is according to this documentation :…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2020-12-18T06:03:05.5+00:00
Gauvin Repuspolo 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-03-02T06:30:57.17+00:00
Joyce Beck 31 Reputation points
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Is it possible to edit Word Plugin initial guideline page?

Can I edit this guideline page for my word plugin? (guideline page is marked in red in the above picture)

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
asked 2021-03-02T05:59:57.38+00:00
Toufiqul Islam 1 Reputation point
0 answers

Add-In for Outlook problem

Brand new migrated Exchange Server 2016 CU19 everything works fine except for this third party add-in from our case management system software developers. I can install the add-in and login fine and return data from them displaying in outlook. the add-in…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,852 questions
Exchange Server Development
Exchange Server Development
Exchange Server: A family of Microsoft client/server messaging and collaboration software.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
540 questions
Exchange Server Management
Exchange Server Management
Exchange Server: A family of Microsoft client/server messaging and collaboration software.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
7,599 questions
asked 2021-02-26T16:12:30.73+00:00
Sal Mejico 1 Reputation point