I have been working with this excel macro since April 23rd. Recently it has stopped showing up even though it is showing installed. Any ideas?
What I have already tried:
I have checked the trust center to add the folder I have the macro stored in but it is currently stored on an internal network drive that can not be added to the trust center.
I have also moved the macro to the default directory for Macros. It still will not load in.
When I just drag the macro .xla file into Excel it will pick it up and start showing in the VBA IDE, but only if the file I drag in is stored on the default directory.
Excel Macros installed:
Excel Options
Add-ins
Excel VBA IDE not showing the macros as well as not showing in the ribbon:
Add-ins tab not showing add-ins
Missing from VBA IDE
I am not certain if this applies to your case, but this is what worked for me with the following set up:
- Using Windows
- Add-in stored on the network drive
My problem was that after I installed an add-in it would show up (both IDE and as a custom ribbon), but after I closed Excel and reopened it the add-in would fail to load (no ribbon, no IDE).
First step to fix this is to add a trusted location in Excel settings:
Trust Center -> Trusted Locations
You may need to select [Allow Trusted Locations on my network] before adding a location.
You can add just one folder, or, if it is appropriate, you can even add the whole network drive.
You may want to select [Subfolders in this location are also trusted]
The second step was far from obvious to me. I also needed to add network folder as a trusted location in Internet Explorer of all things:
Settings -> Internet Options -> Security -> Intranet -> Sites -> Advanced
Then you need to add the folder path to the network folder that contains the add-in.
After completing both steps and reopening Excel add-ins in the network folder started to appear both in IDE and as a custom ribbon. These two steps were necessary part of installation for every user.
If you are using multiple add-ins you may want to consider using one network folder for them. You can also take a look at this question about network add-ins to see how they can be distributed in a more convenient fashion (one of the answers there is mine).
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I’ve done a LOT of googling about this and haven’t found anything specific to this situation. Apologies if I missed it.
I have a .xlsm workbook that has a few macros—-one to refresh connections to a Microsoft Access Database, one to refresh pivots, and one to save it to multiple locations.
When I open the file, I get the standard yellow security bar that some active content has been disabled—-but it used to just say ‘macros have been disabled’. When I check the macros, they are there.
BUT when I hit ‘enable’, there’s 2 issues:
it doesn’t enable anything and I have to go to the Trust Center to enable both Macros and External Data Connections. Before yesterday, I never had to do that.
Once I enable macros and external data in the Trust Center, suddenly I get an alert that VBA “can’t find a project or library” and all my macros are now gone.
When I reload the workbook, we’re back to where I started. I have one other workbook with this issue. The other 5 or 6 macro-enabled workbooks do not have this issue.
The issue with these docs persists across 2 other colleagues’ remote laptops. However, when I remote into the office and access the same files in the same folder using VMWare to remote into an office PC environment, they work just fine.
I have tried accessing Tools>References in VBA—-nothing happens when I click ‘References’. I have restarted. I have emailed the files from the VMWare environment to myself, and they don’t work. I have enabled all macros and data connections by selecting those radio buttons, but still have VBA throwing that error and my macros disappearing until I reopen the file.
I truly don’t understand. Can somehow the files be corrupted only when I access them from home? Is there any fix?
I have a .xlam add-in which gives users an additional ribbon in Excel with several macros.
In the past, I have distributed these sorts of add-ins by saving the file to a saved network location, and asking the users to follow 5/6 simple steps to install (Excel > Options > Add-ins > Find the file and select OK). This also means that to update the toolbar across all users, I just need to overwrite the one file and everybody will then see the new version.
However, for the business I actually work for, many of our users are regularly at client sites, with no access to our own network - so the approach of saving the file to the network (as above) won't work.
I had heard that Add-ins could be rolled out via Office 365 admin center 'centralised deployment', however am I right in thinking this is for a different type of 'add-in'?
If so, are there any other approaches I can take to roll out a .xlam add-in to multiple users via the Cloud?
Thanks in advance!
Deployment by Office 365 Admin center is only for Web Add-in, the new generation, so your add-in in .xlam could not be deploy like that.
To deploy to many user you can do it by share network like you did, or by tool like SCCM to deploy more easily to lot of user
For info, I managed to solve this by saving the .xlam file into a Shared OneDrive folder, and instructing the users to install it from this location.
This allows me to update the .xlam file on OneDrive with new versions, and this will then automatically sync onto the users machines, meaning the toolbar is always up to date.
Excel COM addin is not loading during starting up and each time I have to add it manually. After checking the File > OPtions > Add-ins > Manage -> COM addins, I see that the 'add in' is in 'Unloaded' state. Not sure how to make it automatically load at startup.
Here's what fixed the issue for me.
Steps:
Start > type 'regedit'
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins
Then change the value of loadBehaviour to 3 for HyperionComAddin. As shown below. Just to clarify, this is the add-in that was not loading during start up for me. Picture in the question is to give an example.
Close registry and reopen it to make sure that value has not changed.
Now restart excel.
Tried and Tested on MS Excel 365 Version 1908 (Build 11929.20838 Click-to-Run)
I too had faced this issue after my organization updated my MS Office suite.
I created a custom ribbon for my addin and that was activating on excel startup.
So, I added my Addins folder to trusted paths:
Options-->Trust Center-->Trust Center Settings
Under the Trusted Locations, Just add the folder path where the addin is located.
Hope this works for your version of Excel application.
This also works for Microsoft Dynamics Excel Add In (VSTO). Upon doing above and change loading behaviour 0 to 3, closing Reg Edit, re open EXCEL, the Dynamics Add In is up, showing Dynamics TAB
It's also worth adding that the add-in has to be a trusted document or be located in a trust
There are two client PCs. PC1 has only Office 2010 installed and PC2 has multiple Office installed but office 2010 is the default installation.
The two PCs behaves strangely when open SharePOint Excel file. No files are checked out from SharePoint and no one is trying to access the same file at the same time. PC1 opens Excel file from SharePOint is read-only (don't have Check out button under File-> Versioning). PC2 opens Excel file from SharePOint is ok to edit (does have Check out button under File-> versioning, can add a new row and save directly).
What cause the check out button shown differently on different PCs even the files are in the same condition in the Share Point?
Added Notes here: I think this is totally related to the first PC. The first time (only the first time/can be edited in the second time) to open Excel file from client application side has the issue. I have checked Content.MSO and did see all files created and removed correctly so it is not Content.MSO issue.
Thanks,
YK
I have a Windows 2003 Server box with Excel 2010 installed, upon which I am unable to create new or execute existing macros in spreadsheets. Note: this machine is in a Windows Domain (and I am not getting much help from the network folks here.)
I can and have edited the macro security levels within Excel (File, Options, Trust Center, Macro Settings --> Enable All Macros) but despite this, when I try to:
Open a spreadsheet with macros, I get an exception "Excel found unreadable content...." which goes on to refer to the VBA macros within the spreadsheet
Create a new macro in a brand new spreadsheet created on this machine, all the toolbar buttons providing access to the VBA editor are disabled.
Could this be a Group Policy setting that allows me to edit the macro security settings, but overrides these settings and prevents me from actually creating, editing, or executing VBA macros? (If so, does anyone happen to know which group policy setting I should be looking for?)
I've run rsop.msc (Resultant Set of Policy) on the machine and looked through every single thing under both Computer Configuration and User Configuration, but I don't see anything related to Excel (or Office) Security/Macros.
In this case, the problem was that Visual Basic for Applications hadn't been installed when Excel itself was installed.
(As usual, Microsoft could do a much better job of alerting the user to this unusual configuration, but what can you do.)