Microsoft Word CMD + K

Cursor-style cmd+k for Word, as an Add-in. Install this Add-in, highlight text, press cmd+k, and edit away!

Demo

Run Instructions [DEV]

0. Ensure you have Microsoft word installed locally (I devved this on Mac, not tested on windows), and you're logged in with a Microsoft account and valid Word license.
1. npm install all dependencies.
2. npm run devserver to spin up the development server (required for sideloading this add-in to Word). This will take ~1 minute to fully be live.
3. npm run start

Notes

• This was built using Microsoft Office Add-ins Development Kit on VSCode
• You must sudo npm install before running anything here
• To validate your Manifest file, you can run npx --yes office-addin-manifest validate manifest.xml
• With this VSCode extension, you can click Preview your office add-in, and run it on desktop chromium to preview
  • This will start a development server with your files on it!
  • Alternatively, (and I prefer this), you can run npm run start:desktop -- --app word, which I made a command for at npm run start
• Sideloaded Word extensions are found in /Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Documents/wef
  • If you ever need to locate them or delete them, try going here
  • Can find this with cmd+shift+g in finder on Mac
• Microsoft word caching extensions heavily. You can find the cache in /Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Caches.
  • If you need to reset the state of word, just delete the caches folder!
• The development server must be running on https for this to work! Word does not support running on HTTP
  • You can start it with npm run devserver
  • This devserver will be started in ~1 minute, and auto-reloads upon save!

Error Log

• Add-in Error: Sorry, we can't load the add-in. Please make sure you have internet connectivity.
  • Honestly no clue what's going on here lmfao
  • I guess the development server isn't up or something?
  • Fixed this by adding npm run devserver command, which builds the webpack in dev mode for the web server!
    • This command must be run before we npm run start to test this out
    • This takes a while to start up however, the plugin may appear as loading for a bit

[FROM MICROSOFT]: Build Word add-ins using Office Add-ins Development Kit

Word add-ins are integrations built by third parties into Word by using Word JavaScript API and Office Platform capabilities.

TODOs:

• Figure out how to override the global scope of the project now just the task pane for cmd+k
  • Perhaps have a Function Command button to do this?
    • Docs on this here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/design/add-in-commands
• Allow for other LLM types and models, not just OpenAI and GPT4o
• Custom system prompt additions
• Deploy this and make it live (holy shit though fuck microsoft dev environments this was ass to set up)