I have an Excel file with many scroll-bars and check-boxes. It works fine in my laptop.
When I use this file in another computer, I am not able to control the objects, it is always in design mode. I am not able to release from design mode. Please help me.
Click on
File Tab | Excel Options | Trust Centre | Trust Centre Setting | ActiveX Settings
Select Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions
EDIT:
Also check these two things
Macro Settings (Below ActiveX Settings)
Does your MS Office supports Macros. Which Version does this happen on?
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When creating an Excel file in Office365 including macros that increase and decrease value in a cell depending if you click up or down arrow causes issues when the sheet isn't perfectly aligned with the rows. This has been verified by Microsoft in case 34137940 as a bug - who suggested to ask the question here and reach out to a developer support team member. The problem is that no matter if I click up or down when a row is "visually splitted" the amount increases in the cell.
So what can I do to make this work as intended? I don't want to wait until Microsoft pushes an update. There has to be a solution for me to be able to disable smooth-scrolling somehow?
There is a temporary solution here to solve this by running the below commands to revert to earlier update - but that is not an option in this case since newer features is used as well.
cd %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\
OfficeC2RClient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.14701.20262
I also tried disabling smooth scrolling in Windows 10 (Link), following the below steps - with no success.
Navigate to System Properties by right clicking **Properties **from my computer.
Click on Advanced and click on Performance settings.
In Visual Effects tab of Performance Options window, click Custom. Then deselect the following items to Disable some unnecessary eye candy:
Uncheck Smooth-scroll list boxes.
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).
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 have an Excel workbook shared with other Excel users. When my co-workers and I use our different computers to print the same sheets to PDF, the page breaks differently in the resulting PDF, even though it displays the same in print preview.
We both run Windows 10, Excel 2016, using the same printer driver and printing preferences. I've confirmed the regional settings in our system are the same. No special fonts are included in the workbook. No difference in the AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Excel/XLSTART/.
How can I avoid the layout changes? Is there anything that I might have missed checking? Any help would be appreciated!
If you're both printing the same version of the same document on the same printer, driver, operating system, etc, then you are missing a setting.
Some printer settings are buried pretty deep. Also, were you using the Print Preview or Page Preview when you both viewed it?
I suspect you missed a screen of settings somewhere from the image below, likely the Options... button in the bottom right, which take you into the Manufacturer's settings dialog(s).
Another place to check for settings you may have missed is the control pael. Hit the Windows Key and type printers and hit Enter and make sure you double check every setting in that window and all of the sub-dialogs. Some printers can have hundreds of settings.
If you still can't find a difference, get a third person on a different computer to try printing it. The odd man out of the three of your print jobs, is likely the one with the different setting!
If still no go, please post screen shots.
On Windows, Control Panel -> Display settings on different computers distort how Excel fits cells onto a page from computer to computer in my experience.
Windows7 Control Panel Display Settings
Display settings did it for me. I checked language packs, versions, removed and readded the print to pdf driver packs, the works. I was about to clone the working system to the non working system. The non working system had display scaled 125%....
While using MS Excel (Outlook, Word, or Power Point as well apparently) I create a userform. The toolbox shows up showing controls tab and 16 icons representing various controls. When I right click in some empty space in the tool box control area, a menu comes up listing "additional controls" at the top and two greyed out options below it. When I select "additional controls" a spinning blue circle appears briefly then disappears and nothing happens.
It is my understanding that a dialogue box should open at this point and I should be able to select some additional controls.
I noticed the problem while trying to follow a video on how to data scrape for my personal project which I asked for help here.
What I have tried
Creating a user form on another computer and then importing it to this one. No success.
Repairing MS Excel. This resulted in a full reinstall I believe as I had to re enter my product key. No success.
Resetting various registry keys as mentioned in this article. No success.
KB 369383 as mention as part of the process above. No success.
Issue described here but no solution, just a work around to something to what the person was trying to add.
Setting MS Excel to run in compatibility mode. There was no compatibility mode listed as an option under properties for the desktop icon.
Running as administrator even though my Windows account has admin rights. No change.
Cleaning the registry with both ccleaner and wise registry cleaner.
Running Excel in safe mode using excel.exe /s. Confirmed with (safe mode) in the title bar. No success.
My System
Windows 10
MS Office Professional 2013 - 32
(Note, no crystal reports added that I am aware of)
Additional Info
I tried another Windows 10 machine running same version of MS Office and it worked there, so it should not solely be a Windows 10 issue. My machine was an upgrade from Windows 7 - 64. The other machine was an upgrade from windows 8.
I created a new Windows user account and the dialogue box comes up for that account. At least now we know that its SOMETHING to do with my user account/profile.
I found a solution to 'my' problem after spending 2-3 nights over this. It turned out to be a very simple and not-so-intuitive fix.
My problem was that when I right-click on the Toolbox, I do not even get to see the "Additional Control" option in the menu.
Click on the userform, so that its selected.
Now go to Tools and Additional Controls is no longer greyed out. :)
Make sure the the Toolbox window is selected first then click on the Tools menu and Additional Controls should then be visible
In my case it was the toolbox that needed to be selected and not the userform.
When toolbox is selected, bam! the "Additional Controls" is no longer greyed out.