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I got a question today about Mac support for this add-in. The question was if Word 2016 for Mac could be supported. I will also place my answer here.
This add-in uses VSTO and produces COM based add-ins. Those are not supported on Mac and, as far as I know and understood, Microsoft will not create the libraries to enable that.
Now, that being said, as of Word 2016 there is a new manner of creating add-ins. Those can run on all types of Word 2016 (web, desktop) for both Windows and Mac. There are however a number of issues with that:
* No backwards compatibility, it will only work for Word 2016. This is a big issue!
* As it is relatively new, documentation and experience is scarce
* No idea yet if this will catch on, it could be phased out quickly
* It would mean a complete rewrite of the add-in, as it is based on web-technologies. Nothing can be reused as of now, I hope this will change in the future when this new method is more mature.
* It would require the need of a web-server to host the add-in, for example on Azure. That would effectively mean that the add-in would no longer be free to use. That is not what I want.
So, in short. No add-in for Mac, also not in Word 2016.
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