Integrating Microsoft Office tools into an Electron application cannot be achieved by directly embedding native desktop Office apps (like Excel or Word) inside an Electron window. Instead, you must leverage cloud APIs, web components, or OS-level automation depending on your specific use case. Method 1: Use Microsoft Graph API & Toolkit (Recommended)
If your goal is to read, write, or manage data from Office 365 (e.g., retrieving Outlook emails, managing OneDrive files, or editing Excel tables programmatically), the Microsoft Graph API is the official standard.
Authentication: Register your application in the Microsoft Entra admin center. Use the @microsoft/mgt-electron-provider package alongside MSAL Node to implement secure user authentication via OAuth 2.0.
UI Components: Install @microsoft/mgt-components to access drop-in web components. You can effortlessly add a mgt-agenda component for Outlook Calendars or a mgt-people-picker for your organization’s directory directly into your Electron frontend. Method 2: Embed Office Online via WebView2 or Iframes
If you need users to visually view and edit Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) inside your Electron application window without building a custom editor from scratch, you can embed Office web apps.
Office Embeds: You can leverage the official Microsoft Office embed feature by serving documents inside an