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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?

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?

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
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
  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.
  - Mark E Weisman
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 11, 2019
    Sergei, I attached a PNG showing the error. I'm referring to our Excel Online to demonstrate the availability of this feature in our tenant. I suspect that our proxies are not set properly for use within our firewall. I have a service ticket opened for our MS Office support team.
    
    According to the release notes for Excel version 1902, this feature is available now. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/monthly-channel-2019.

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