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Installed Excel v1902 on March 4, But No "Ideas for Excel". Why?
Are there components needed that my company doesn't provide?
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- I've been doing some research, and now I believe that our Office 365 Admin has not enabled App add-ins. Would that prevent the proper functioning of the Ideas in Excel feature? If so, how can I influence a policy change? For example, if cost is an issue is it possible to only enable free App add-ins, and would that be sufficient to get Ideas in Excel working?
Hi,
I think the feature has not yet been enabled on your your tenant.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/ideas-in-excel-3223aab8-f543-4fda-85ed-76bb0295ffc4
Note: This feature is being made available to customers on a gradual basis. It will first be available in English, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese to Office 365 subscribers on Windows and Mac. If you are an Office 365 subscriber, make sure you have the latest version of Office.
Hi Mark,
Please clarify you don't have Ideas icon at all, or you have it and it doesn't work and you have only white pane when you click on it.
IMHO, Ideas is not an add-in, that is built-in functionality like, for example, modern Data Types (Stock and Geography).
If first, it's most probably wasn't deployed for your tenant. If second, you need to play with IE security settings and/or compatibility view. What helped to me that's uncheck of the latest
- Sergei, thanks for the reply. I can access our Excel Online using both IE 11 w/ the Compatibility View set as you show above, and using Chrome version 72.0.3626.121. In both cases I can see the "blue lightening bolt" on the Home ribbon, but when it's pressed I get an error message in the Ideas Preview panel. For my desktop Excel version 1902 I don't see the "blue lightening bolt" at all.
