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LAMBDA function not supported anymore?
Hello, I am signed up for the Office Insider Current Channel (Preview) and currently have version 2111 build 16.0.14701.20240 installed. As soon as the LAMBDA function was released for Office...
Carlos Spörk Do you have multiple 365 accounts by any chance? If so, try signing out of all but one and then let Office update itself.
Well, that behavior of functions availability on a random criteria is definitely rude. We're after all supposed to test and provide feedback on preview or beta features. And now I find out that some of the workbooks I created are probably not going to be of any use whatsoever until the LAMBDA function is released to the general public?
Btw, completely uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft 365 only to see if I'm lucky to win the lottery would be a waste of time.
According to what I heard, all Insiders should have access to LAMBDA now. Try Launching Excel, then killing its process using Taks manager, then launching it again. If that fails, I suggest to let it update itself. If no updates are available, I think your last straw is an on-line repair of Office.
- Funny thing is, the function works just fine when I open any of the workbooks using the LAMBDA function in Excel for Android.
Carlos Spörk I got official response about this, which comes down to:
we’ve sometimes seen people lose flighted features when they should still have those flights, some reasons are,
- they switched their channel
- they switched their account
- they upgraded / downgraded their build, or performed a clean install
- (some less common scenarios)
I know that doesn't solve your issue though.
Just to say this is (probably) what happened to me; my son took me through a move from gmail to Outlook, which involved setting up a different (personalized) email address, to which I had to transfer my Office365 subscription. I then found - quite by chance - that the lambda functionality had disappeared.
I immediately:
* subscribed (with the new email account) to the office insider programme
* did an online repair of office
... but have not yet got lambdas working
I am hoping that they "come back" with a future update.
Curiously (to my simple mind) MS first line tech support gave up and wouldn't refer me further to technicians, instead giving me a number of community links (which led to this). My hopes rather fell when the person taking over my machine seemed really confused about my customized ribbon 🙂
Best wishes
Andrew Howe
JKPieterse Yesterday I uninstalled and reinstalled Office (after rebooting). After reinstalling, I made sure I was still subscribed to the Office Insider's Current Channel (Preview), and I already had an update available for the Current Channel. Still, the LAMBDA function is not available. I will wait for the next update. Based on what you've heard, I might get the function back with that update. Thank you so much for your help!
Carlos Spörk Do you have multiple 365 accounts by any chance? If so, try signing out of all but one and then let Office update itself.
JKPieterse Well, after waiting for almost 3 weeks I've got the latest update for the Current Channel (Preview) and lo and behold, the LAMBDA function is back, and all of my workbooks are working again. Before that, I had already followed your suggestion to sign out of my other 365 accounts.
Thank you so much for your help!
