I just installed MS Office Home & Student 2016 edition on my Mac. Bringing up one of my Office 2016 PC files shows the main button on the front sheet in edit mode (clicking it does not fire the underlying macro). I have no buttons in the ribbon that allow this to happen. What's worse, though, is discovering to my horror that I cannot enable developer mode in this version. There is no apparent upgrade path: to upgrade to 2019 or Office 365 means a new purchase.
Nothing in the documentation indicated that this was going to be a hobbled version of Office. Does anyone have a solution to this?
Thank you for your consideration of my little conundrum.
An Update:
In case someone else is curious about this, I did get an answer from a very helpful Jim Gordon MVP on the Microsoft site. He said:
Are you saying that you don't see the Developer tab of the Ribbon? If so, go to Excel > Preferences. I think there's a checkbox in 2016 on either the General tab or the View tab that you can check to turn the Developer tab so it displays.
Controls being disabled can be caused by certain factors. One is that you have a subscription and it expired or is not activated for some reason. I don't think this is the case here, because I suspect you have some other kind of license for Office or you would most likely be using Excel 2019.
Controls can be disabled if the file you're working on was saved in an old format or by a non-office application. For example, many features of Office are not available when the file is in old .xls file format. Even if it was saved in .xlsx file format by an app such as LibreOffice, features are disabled and the file opens in "compatibility mode." In all these cases you can get functionality restored by using File > Save As and saving using a current file format (.xlsx .xlst .xlsb .xlsm etc)
Very useful. I will get stuck into some rudimentary Excel 2016 Mac tutorials now as this is definitely not your grandfather's Excel (2003).
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I created a simple vba addin that colors cells based on their value, and I created a function that calls it with a shortcut then I saved it as an Excel addin and added it to Excel.
The problem is the addin works fine when I add it the first time, but when I open a new Excel file, I need to disable and enable the addin for it to work.
Update: I tried it on another computer and it works, but it shows an error that when I ignore it works fine. I am adding screenshots for the error and code
Error Message
Code
Sometimes, Excel will open workbooks in another Excel Application. This second application can sometimes face some issues with addins. You should double-check that the new file is opened in the same Excel Application. By looking at the task manager:
In this example, I'm using Window 10 and you can see that Book3.xlsx is in a different Excel Application than Book2.xlsx and Book1.xlsx
EDIT:
This question could also be of interest to you. The accepted answer reads:
This problem results from security patch in KB31152, released in July 2016. According to private communication with Microsoft software engineers:
"With this update, we changed the behavior of Excel so that it will
not load certain file types (including .xlam) when they are untrusted.
The easiest workaround is to find the add-in that is causing you
trouble, right-clicking on it in Windows Explorer, and checking
Unblock"
An easier approach is to simply place the add-in in a Trusted Location
(in Excel, go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings
Trusted Locations), such as the following folder, and load it from there:
C:\Users\%USER NAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART
EDIT2:
And don't forget the option of just restarting your computer just to make sure that the problem is still there.
Can anyone help me in allowing use of form controls using excel in my android tablet? and how can i change protection in the excel in tablet? i cannot open review tab in the tablet. Thanks.
Pretty sure the short answer to both your questions is send it to a
computer. On a computer remove protection and make any changes with form controls required and then resend to your tablet.
You will need Office 365 on your tablet to get the maximum use of features though these additional features seems to be limited, for Excel, to SmartArt.
Without 365, and with protection removed (via computer), you should be able to access the review tab on your tablet and add, for example, worksheet protection. The latter bit is according to Microsoft Support (case reference 1419182369). I haven't been able to test as I don't have a tablet.
As far as I could find out, the workbooks with form controls are now "enabled" - basically, these files will open but there will be placeholders where these controls are; as opposed to functional objects.
See here for information: https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304939-excel-for-android/suggestions/15075030-support-form-controls
Further help information around Android Tablet Excel features:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-for-android-tablets-help-5f089a58-dfa5-4cdb-b93b-55deb638a469
The current ideas proposed for Android Excel in relation to Macros and Add-Ins:
https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304939-excel-for-android?category_id=143592
I've an excel sheet in the OneDrive. The problem is it doesnt allow to edit in excel if someones already using the online feature.
This may sounds dumb but is there any work around to make this possible other than saving it to another location and re uploding to the onedrive?
The problem is some excel sheets contain more than 15, 000 rows and its really laggy when we try to edit in browser. Also advanced sorting methods arent in there. So were entering to the edit in excel mode and opens in read only mode or saving to local folder and re-upload.
check this... https://support.office.com/en-us/article/collaborate-on-excel-workbooks-at-the-same-time-with-co-authoring-7152aa8b-b791-414c-a3bb-3024e46fb104
Why am I getting the "File is locked" error?
There are a handful of reasons why this error can occur. The most common one is because someone has opened the file with a version of Excel that doesn't support co-authoring. If just one person does this, then everyone else will get the "locked" error — even if everyone else is using a version of Excel that does support co-authoring.
Versions of Excel that support co-authoring:
Excel 2016 for Windows*
Excel 2016 for Mac*
Excel Online
Excel for Android
Excel for iOS
Excel Mobile
Co-authoring in this version requires the latest version of Excel installed, and requires you to sign in to Office with an Office 365 subscription account. Please note that if you have a work or school account, you might not have a version of Office that supports co-authoring yet. This might be because your administrator hasn’t provided the latest version to install. Or, if you're using Excel 2016 for Windows, it might be because your company or school is on the Semi-Annual Update Channel. You can tell if you are on this channel by going to File > Account. If it says Semi-annual Channel next to About Excel, then co-authoring isn’t available yet for you.
If you are still getting the "locked" error, see Excel file is locked out for editing for more solutions to this problem.
I recently installed the spreadsheet link ex add-in on my excel 2013, but it doesn't work. When I try to choose the option 'Start MATLAB' from MATLAB field in HOME Ribbon it gives me an error:
'Cannot run the macro 'ribStartMatlab'. The Macro may not be available in this workbook or all macros all disabled.'
The same thing happens with any other MATLAB command chosen from excel.
I chose the option 'Enable all macros' in the Macro Security Settings and also checked the box 'Trust access to the VBA project object model'.
I also checked the SpreadsheetLink2007_2010 reference in the VBA->Tools->References (none other is available).
I found some information that the version of SP for Office might be put to blame but I checked and it seems I have the latest version of SP1 for Office 2013.
The exact name of the add-in is 'Spreadsheet Link EX 3.2 for use with MATLAB and Excel', the Office version is 2013 Proffesional Plus, and the MATLAB version is 2013b. Any help or tips greatly appreciated.
this is more of a guess than anything else. But I'm guessing the ribbon/macros use activeX control. at the end of last year there was an update to excel that disables activeX, which usually results in strange performance or code breaking with very cryptic error messages. It's a bit complicated to get it to work again, but here is a post that might provide some insight http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2015/03/11/forms-controls-stop-working-after-december-2014-updates-.aspx
again, this is really a guess, I don't know for certain the matlab commands use activeX but it's worth looking into
I have a very simple Excel Addin build it in Visual Studio 2008 for Excel 2003, which creates a toolbar with some buttons.
When I debug it, with System Format set to "English (United States)" it works great, without problems.
However, this addin is going to be used with System Format set to "French (France)" too, and when I try to debug my addin under this configuration, the toolbar (which is created by the addin) is not being shown.
While I'm debugging I can see that the methods that create the toolbar are executed and the code returns fine, yet I can't see anything in Excel, and if I switch back the format to English it works again.
Does anyone know which could be the reason?
I had a similar problem with an add-in that I built for Excel 2000. Although the tool bar would show, nothing was on the toolbar. I was able to correct the issue by downloading the
office multilanguage pack 2003.
Here is a link to it, assuming you do not already have this installed it may be worth a shot.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402201033.aspx
In the end, there was a problem related with the decimal separator, which changes for French language, and a validation that I was doing in my code, I missed that part when debugging, thanks for the answers anyway.