Excel® 2013 VBA and Macros

27. An Introduction to Creating Apps for Office

In This Chapter

Creating Your First App—Hello World

Adding Interactivity to Your App

A Basic Introduction to HTML

XML Use with Your App

Using JavaScript to Add Interactivity to Your App

Napa Office 365 Development Tools

Next Steps

With Office 2013, Microsoft has introduced Apps for Office, applications that provide expanded functionality to a sheet, such as a selectable calendar, or an interface with the Web, such as retrieving information from Wikipedia or Bing. Like add-ins, once installed, the app is always available. But unlike add-ins, the app has limited interaction with sheets and does not use VBA.

An app consists of an HTML file that provides the user interface on a task or content pane, ...