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 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

Versions

Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Office 2003
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft Office 2013
Microsoft Office 365

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