Customize MS Office 2000 – 2007 with application-level solutions

Add-in Express for Microsoft Office is the only visual RAD development toolkit that allows advanced customization for all end-user applications and all Microsoft Office versions, starting from Office 2000 to Office 2007.

Using visual designers and Office-ready components of Add-in Express you can create scalable application-level extensions including COM Add-ins, Smart Tags, Excel RTD Servers and Excel User-Defined functions.

With Add-in Express you can handle all events of the host application, extend standard menus and toolbars of the host application, add your own toolbars, menus and option pages. It also offers the unique Advanced Form and View Region technology for Outlook, and a number of features for buiding an Advanced Excel GUI, it supports Automation Add-ins and Excel XLL add-ins.

Special wizards of Add-in Express provide secure, managed or unmanaged, isolated or non-isolated, local or remotely deployable, automatically updatable and version-neutral project templates for your Office solutions.

RAD modules consolidate your applied code, centralize Office-specific components and provide flexible and transparent access to Office objects and events.

Components and visual designers allow you to build reliable custom-tailored solutions with minimal coding and debugging.

Support of MS Office 2000 - 2007

The version-neutral programming model, run-time and design-time code of Add-in Express support all available Office versions, from 2000 to the newest 2007, hide the complexity of COM-development and allow you to build Office solutions of any scale.

You write the add-in code once and have it work in all versions of Microsoft Office.

Add-in Express supports:

Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007	Access 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007
Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007	MS Project 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007
Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007	MapPoint 2004
FrontPage 2000, XP and 2003	Visio 2002, 2003 and 2007
PowerPoint 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007

Office Add-in Express key features:

• Implements the IDTExtensibility2 interface the COM add-in architecture is based on
• Simplifies creation of an Office COM add-in project with a complete COM type library, visual designers and special components
• Extends standard Office toolbars and menus with your custom controls such as buttons, edit boxes, and pop-ups
• Adds and manages your own option page, toolbars, and menus (see Outlook add-in samples and Excel add-in examples)
• Handles all control events)
• Correctly handles user's actions such as hiding and deleting controls, as well as moving them to other toolbars
• Allows using Delphi forms and components inside your add-in
• Allows access to all objects of the host application through standard Delphi COM class wrappers such as TExcelApplication, TOutlookApplication, etc.
• Allows creating Excel Automation Add-ins in Delphi (not COM Add-ins) for Office 2002, 2003 and Office 2007. For example, you can add your own worksheet functions to Excel
• Adds new option and property pages to Outlook 2007, 2003 - 2000
• Allows creating Real-Time Data Servers for Microsoft Excel 2002, 2003 and Exel 2007

Office Add-in Express toolbar controls:

How to get more details

 •  Add-in Express 2008 for Delphi

 •  Add-in Express in action - Excel add-ins, Outlook plug-ins

 •  Add-in Express Wizards

 •  HOWTOs for Outlook, Excel, Word

 •  Sample add-ins for Excel, Outlook, Word