Thanks for offering to beta test the App Store for Office

The App Store for Office is an addin for Microsoft Office 2010 and 2007 that adds an ‘App Store’ tab to the ribbon. The aim is to make it much easier for Office users to discover add-ins that may help them.

In that tab in Excel, PowerPoint or Word you will see that you can enter the store. In the store are links to apps (addins) for that program, plus various other functions.

At the moment there are live links in the Store to only a few PowerPoint apps. You will see that the Excel and Word Stores just have ‘holding’ content. The reason is that before we approach other app publishers to include their apps, we need feedback from you to make sure that everything works right and is clear to users.

When you have experimented with the App Store, please follow the Feedback link in the ribbon to our short survey and send us your feedback.

We hope that you will leave the App Store installed and will enjoy seeing new apps being added.

Please accept our best regards and thanks for taking part!

Jamie Garroch – GMARK Ltd
Steve Hards – SteveHardSoft

January 2012