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Calvin Willman - 22 Nov 2006 10:49 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone else had this problem after installing VSTO. When
I right-click on the column header, delete and insert are both disabled,
when it never used to be.

To delete a column now, I need to go into the "delete..." function to open
the pop-up menu item and do it from there. It seems to have affected several
users here and I'm not certain it is VSTO or something else.

Thanks,
Calvin

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Cindy M. - 30 Nov 2006 16:54 GMT

Hi Calvin,

> I was wondering if anyone else had this problem after installing VSTO. When
> I right-click on the column header, delete and insert are both disabled,
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> the pop-up menu item and do it from there. It seems to have affected several
> users here and I'm not certain it is VSTO or something else.

You're seeing this in "plain old" Excel? Or in the VSTO Designer for Excel?

And this is VSTO 2005 (no SE)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Calvin Willman - 12 Dec 2006 16:29 GMT

Thanks for your reply Cindy,

It's in Excel 2003, and also the Designer. It seems to have affected all the
users to which we've deployed vstor.exe redistributable.
Although, I've recently done a fresh install of windows on my development pc
and NOT installed vstor.exe, as I already get VSTO with VS2005 Software
Architects, and Excel is fine...

On my notebook, I've got VS2005 Software Architects, and have installed and
uninstalled vstor.exe as part of a setup project, for testing, and
insert/delete has now become disabled on that, where it hadn't been prior
too this, although happily run the Excel Customisation for weeks.

I've been searching google for ages on this, and it seems that there is
nothing on it at all... My company have recently become MS Gold Partners,
and so I need to find out whether we have a contact at Microsoft who is able
to support us on this... I'm not completely sure of what Partnership entails
in that regard.

But if anyone has any ideas, as I'm getting it in the neck, when the only
change I made to end users pc's was to add a Publisher Cert to CASPOL... the
app itself is simply a .xls report they download from a website, run once to
retreive some sales data, which then removes the customisation beforesave...
not rocket science...

Thanks
Calvin

> Hi Calvin,
>
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> reply
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Cindy M. - 14 Dec 2006 17:29 GMT

Hi Calvin,

> I've been searching google for ages on this, and it seems that there is
> nothing on it at all... My company have recently become MS Gold Partners,
> and so I need to find out whether we have a contact at Microsoft who is able
> to support us on this... I'm not completely sure of what Partnership entails
> in that regard.

If you don't turn anything up, I suggest posting in the VSTO forum (web
interface). The VSTO team actually monitors that and may have some information

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16&SiteID=1

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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