Open 4tti opened 1 year ago
Hi @4tti, this is a by-design behavior. The registration of Custom Functions depends on the installation of Office add-in, but Office add-in is not supported in embedded mode.
@rundongmsft it is not "editing" in embedded mode (like within PowerPoint), it will open excel instance with that file so I assume it should really try to initialize the addin.
If you want I can share recording but privately.
Please provide me a recording, thanks.
Then please share your e-mail. @rundongmsft
You can send me the video by giving feedback: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-365-2b102d44-b43f-4dd2-9ff4-23cf144cfb11. Please add the issue id "#3350" to the feedback's title, so that I can quickly find your feedback.
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@rundongmsft any update please?
Hey, @4tti , If I understand correctly, your scenario is trying to use custom function in embedded mode, unfortunately, it is not supported for custom function yet. please share your feature request here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-developer-platform/idb-p/Microsoft365DeveloperPlatform
@jiju-MS but as I wrote above (And sent the recording) it is not embedded mode.
Embedded mode looks like this:
I am using linked excel file which - using double-click - opens EXCEL instance:
I would like to add my voice to this - I understand the challenges with embedded mode (it’s pretty much unusable with COM-based addins and XLL custom functions as well), but Paste as Link should work fine and is something users will expect to use.
Hi @4tti, we have figured out your scenario and reproduced this issue. We opened an internal bug to track this issue: #8013330. You can provide the scale of affected users, it will help us re-prioritize this issue. Thanks for your patience!
@rundongmsft first of all .. thanks a lot! well, from my POV it affects everyone who wants to use Excel as a basis for PowerPoint presentations (to show tables or charts). Actually I would even dare to say it is one of the basic scenarios and important one. With our legacy software (COM based) this was used by almost every single customer... so we are talking about thousands of companies.
@gmichaud maybe you can comment and give your POV.
Hello @rundongmsft ,
is there any update please? Some of the customers are asking again. Thanks a lot in advance!
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Our customers are expecting that normal office functionality to 'Paste as link' should work even with Custom Functions. Typical scenario is to prepare Excel report and then take part of it and paste it (as a link) into PowerPoint or Word and when some small changes are required users will double click on the 'excel area' within PPT/Word to open that file for editing. Unfortunately this causes excel custom functions not working at all.
Your Environment
Expected behavior
When using paste as link functionality and opening excel via PowerPoint/Word editing it should also boot add-in and register custom functions properly.
Current behavior
Custom functions are not registered resulting in #NAME! errors and completely breaking the user flow.
Steps to reproduce
Context
This is critical for the customers as they typically use excel for reporting and source for the tables/charts within Word or PowerPoint.