Templafy Add-ins side by side: PC, Mac and Office online

Updated February 22, 2023 08:40

About this article

This article will make a feature by feature comparison of Templafy on PC (Windows) and Mac (macOS). This article will refer to PC as being Windows and Mac as being macOS.

Being a cloud-based web application, Templafy works for all platforms and all devices that have access to the Internet from a browser.

This article refers to Templafy One

This article will cover:

Templafy Library
- - PowerPoint
  - Word
  - Excel
Templafy Dynamics
Email signature manager
SlideProof

Templafy Web app

This browser-based access has the same user experience for all devices and platforms, including PC and Mac. As a user can you access this interface if you go tenant.templafy.com in your browser.

Integration to MS Office

Templafy integrates to Microsoft Office via add-ins.

PC/VSTO add-ins	Mac web add-ins & Office online
Integration is done via Microsoft VSTO Add-ins. VSTO Add-ins deployed via Templafy Desktop	Integration is done via Web Add-ins. Web Add-ins deployed via MS Office store

Links
Add-ins pre-requisites About Templafy Desktop Templafy Desktop deployment Templafy Desktop deployment on Citrix / RDS	Add-ins pre-requisites How to install manually How to deploy organization-wide

Templafy Library

Difference between PC and Mac & Office online

In PowerPoint Slide library and Slide elements library are only in Office on PC. Mac users can always use the web application to access these libraries.
Templafy will be supporting these libraries in Web Add-ins as soon as this is made possible from Microsoft.
Dynamics happening "post-document creation" e.g. after the document has been saved to locally is only on PC.

PowerPoint

PC/VSTO add-ins		Mac Web add-ins & Office Online

Available libraries		Available libraries
Presentations		Presentations
Slides		Images
Slide elements		External DAM systems e.g. Pexels
Images
External DAM systems

Ribbon in PC		Ribbon in Mac

Templafy button all to the left in the Home tab		Templafy button all to the right in the Home tab

Word

PC/VSTO add-ins		Mac Web add-ins & Office Online

Available libraries		Available libraries
Documents		Documents
Text elements		Text elements
Images		Images
External DAM systems e.g. Pexels		External DAM systems

Excel

PC/VSTO add-ins		Mac Web add-ins

Available libraries		Available libraries
Spreadsheets		Images
		Possibility to do DAM integration e.g. Bynder

Office Online is not available in Excel due to limitations by Microsoft

Templafy Dynamics

All dynamics available from the Web application is available in Templafy Office Add-ins. This is dynamics related to the creation of a document.

On top of this Templafy Dynamics on PC has more features related to updating of documents after these have been created and saved locally.

PC/VSTO add-ins		Mac/Web add-ins & Office online
Dynamics (cloud-based)		Dynamics (cloud-based)
Insert texts e.g. User information Company information Disclaimers Logos & graphical elements		Insert texts e.g. User information Company information Disclaimers Logos & graphical elements
Insert text elements		Insert text elements
Document automation		Document automation
Dynamics (on-prem)
Document Content Update (DCU)
Offline

Email signature manager

	PC/VSTO add-ins	Mac/Web add-ins & Web
Admin	Yes	Yes
Email signature on-prem (VSTO)	Yes - integrated to Outlook	No - (No web Add-ins for Outlook for Mac)
Email signature server for O365	Yes	Yes

Check

	PC/VSTO add-ins	Mac/Web add-ins & Office Online
Check	Yes	No
ProductivityPlus	Yes	No
Validator	Yes	No
Font Distributor	Yes	No