Add-ins are special files that provide additional functionality. After downloading an add-in file, the Add-ins Manager must be used to install it. Add-ins files have extension .xla or .xlam (for Excel ...

The Solver add-in for Microsoft Excel is one of the most important, so we can understand the frustrations when users cannot get it to work as they hope. In older versions of Excel, folks had to ...

Speech recognition has been a common feature of Excel since Office 2003. Activating speech recognition in Excel 2010 is relatively simple. If you used this feature in previous versions of Excel, be ...

Microsoft is adding a new button to the Home tab in Office to make Add-ins more accessible. The feature has already shipped to all Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for web and Windows users. To access this ...

IT pros can now centrally deploy Office add-ins to end users using Microsoft's Office 365 Centralized Deployment service, which was launched commercially today. Office add-ins are applications built ...