Can task pane bars insert iFrame elements into Powerpoint Online?

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I've looked at the Office Dev Center and Napa documentation, but this is still unclear to me. This link:

http://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/overview/office-add-ins

Has a "Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Add-ins that extend functionality" section with task bars and a "Excel and PowerPoint add-ins that create new objects" section, implying that task bars do not create new objects; is this the case?

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I want to make a new Napa task bar add-on, and I'm following this tutorial: dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/get-started/… Whenever I select "run" on the app, it opens in Excel; how do we make it open in Powerpoint Online? I've gone to the "Run" tab where we can select where we want to run the app, but the other options cannot be selected; it says that I need to download Visual Basic, but then when I try to download Visual Basic, the files don't run on a Mac? – ghui

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I think the "iframe" you're describing is a "content add-in", which is a rectangular control than goes on the slide canvas and can show your HTML/JS UI. It's not possible to insert these from a button on the task pane today. If you need this kind of "iframe", simply write a content add-in: your users can insert as many instances of this content add-in as they want per slide.

If you need a task pane and web content in the slide today, then it's necessary to write (and ship) two separate add-ins: one for the task pane "shape" and the other for the content "shape".