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will the Excel Labs adv formula editer be microsoft certified?
It is not on the list here Microsoft Excel Apps Security and Compliance - All Apps - Microsoft 365 App Certification | Microsoft Learn, and my organization will not allow us to use it unless it is microsoft certified.
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That's quite strange requirement. AFE is Microsoft product, thus certification is not applied to it. Above program is only for third party apps.
Another story AFE is not the part of the core Excel. It's developed by Microsoft as separate add-in in frame of The Garage program by Microsoft Research Cambridge team in collaboration with Excel team.
Yes, that's your organization decision to allow Office add-ins or not, to allow Copilot or not, etc. But Microsoft certification is not the criteria if we speak about Microsoft products.
I really hope Excel Labs becomes fully integrated into Excel as part of the interface with no need to deploy it as an office addin. Unfortunately, a lot of organizations are disabling Office addins so there's no way to use Advanced Formula Environment. It's silly and shortsighted to limit the capabilities of Excel.
