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Mark E Weisman
Copper Contributor
Mar 08, 2019

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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Mark E Weisman's avatar
Mark E Weisman
Copper Contributor
Mar 08, 2019
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?
  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Mar 09, 2019

    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 https://products.office.com/buy/compare-microsoft-office-products on Windows and Mac. If you are an Office 365 subscriber, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-upgrade-office-ee68f6cf-422f-464a-82ec-385f65391350.

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    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond Contributor
    Mar 09, 2019

    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

     

    • Mark E Weisman's avatar
      Mark E Weisman
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 11, 2019
      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.
      • SergeiBaklan's avatar
        SergeiBaklan
        Diamond Contributor
        Mar 11, 2019

        Mark, I didn't try Ideas with Excel Online (practically don't work with it), but will check bit later. Which exactly error do you have?

         

        As for the desktop version it's coming. Microsoft usually announce some functionality for the build, after that starts slowly deploy it among tenants. Build number actually means only you definitely won't have such functionality on earliest build. For this very build and next ones - it depends.

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