How to investigate the origin of an excel add in? - excel

I got a hand me over task to figure this out.
So the original person that set this excel add in has quit
and now I need to find out what add ins this is...
where do I start? any pointers?
I check registry but I can't see anything that tells me where this add in comes from.
I also check From File > options > add ins. And still don't see anything useful that can tell me where this add ins come from.
Also in Customize ribbon, it just shows custom toolbars
I tried to export the customer ribbon import export , still does not tell me anything useful
screen shot. it is not shown in the screenshot below but this is under add ins TAB.
PDF and microsoft lync active add in is not the GWL and AIG import add ins...

This will at least give you the path where the add-in exists.
File --> options-->add-ins
If none of this helps I refer you back to -->How do I remove a custom toolbar from an Excel workbook?

I figure out an XLB file under
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\Excel14.xlb
if I copy this XLB file to a different computer the add in tab / ribbon will appear automagically.
I think I will post another question about how this XLB file works? I want to know how to configure this XLB file from scratch, because I cannot open this XLB file to understand what has been customized. I will post another question. but if you have any suggestion to read or links that will be appreciated.. Thanks for all the help!
also suggested by another member sam plus plus "customize the ribbon to point to macro's or other commands' This may not even be an addin. If you right click on any tab in the ribbon you can select customize ribbon and look for these options" <-- maybe this is enough clue for me to google more info .. thanks again!

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Designer HELP Release 9.0.1FP10 SHF315

This very annoying and I can't figure how to change it. When in Designer And I click on Help >> Help Contents from drop down menu it displays it differently than what I have been used to seeing and is very hard to navigate through. Is there a way to change the behavior? I recently got new Hard drive with Windows 10 opperating system
This is what I am used to seeing and is very navigable:
IBM Support was able to reproduce this and is looking into the issue. I did find a work around.
Open Help Contents from the drop down Help menu.
Right Click on the window and select properties.
Highlight and copy the Address (URL) line
Open a browser (not IE) and paste it in the Address line and go to the page.
It should then present it in a usable form. If not, then click on the first content and that should do the trick.
A problem report has been created with IBM or HCL or whatever they are called now: SPR # ZNDNBA7TEV: Domino Designer Help Contents Display Issue

VBA Ribbon validate imageMso

I'm creating a custom ribbon in Excel, and I'm using ImageMso's for icons. I downloaded the full list of Icons from Microsoft, and tried to create a menu that displays them all for me to choose, but some of them are not displaying.
Is there any way to validate if an imageMso code does not work with the current version of windows, and display a placeholder in it's place instead of a blank icon?
Thanks,
Daniel
In my experience the short answer is no, but I also haven't investigated or attempted to resolve it with any great tenacity. If it doesn't show up I will retry with a different icon.
Note that I am not an expert by any means, but have been playing around with customUI for a while.
There is a great free Add-In I found that helps with speeding up the whole process of identifying suitable icons. It's worth checking it out.
https://www.spreadsheet1.com/how-to-use-imagemso-icons-in-excel.html
Josh
PS. I hear this is particularly an issue going into the Office 2019.

Excel Found Unreadable Content Error

I have been searching on the internet this error about excel.
"Excel found unreadable content in filename.xls. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes."
When I go to Microsoft Support website, I saw this solution
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929766/en-us
In this page it says "To resolve this issue, remove the expressions from all Current Time Member and weight on the KPI properties." I did not understand what to do exactly. Please help me
This is an old question but I wanted to say that. There are lots of ways which you can see this error. Firstly, your computer's clock. you should set it to your terratory. Secondly the Excel version. You should use a formal instance of Microsoft Excel. If you do not want to deal with Microsoft, LibreOffice is free and full of good features. You should try that.
Click yes, save under a new filename, and check the contents match what you expect. If you're able to restore using "Restore previous versions" (right click on the file in explorer) then that's an option as well.

prevent changing the read only status of an excel document

I know you can make an excel and other office files read only by going into right click properties in windows and clicking read only.
However is there anyway to prevent someone from downloading the file and simply right clicking and un checking the read only box?
This is a very important file and I don't want someone to be able to uncheck the read only box on an excel document!
Thanks,
Josh.

Excel 2007-VBA, Right Click Buttons

I am having a strange Excel 2007 issue, and I am not quite sure how to explain this. So bear with me please....
I have created a few right click buttons to call various backend VBA functions that I have written. They were working fine earlier today, and now for some reason, a button is appearing that is not from the code in my worksheet. When you click it, it is attempting to open another worksheet and execute code from it. The two files are not in the same directory nor are they named anything similar. I deleted the file that the button is trying to execute from and now it just simply gives me an error 400.
So, I couldn’t figure that out, and have since deleted every single scrap of code in the backend of this file, and the button still appears. Any ideas what could be causing this? It seems like maybe its mixing files up or saving a copy somewhere in a temp directory and trying to access that instead of the actual code that is written in the VBA. Is there a cache I need to clear out or something?
I know I didn’t exactly do a great job describing this, so I will be more than happy to provide any and all other details that you may need. Just let me know what is going on.
EDIT #1 -- New Information ==
I can even open a new, completely blank excel file and the right click button is still there.
EDIT #2 -- Tried Diagnostics ==
I just tried running the Excel diagnostics and it found no problems. It is strange, it is like this macro has somehow became global or stored in some type of cache or something.
I hope I'm understanding your issue correctly.
If you know what right-click (context) menus the button is appearing in you should be able to fix them with a Reset command. For example if it's appearing in the Cell context menu, you could try this in the VBE's Immediate window:
Application.Commandbars("Cell").Reset
This will reset the entire menu to its default state.
Also, you might be interested in a tool I wrote, MenuRighter, that allows you to tweak your right-click menus. It also has a setting to show you the Caption and ID of any context menu.

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