Does anyone one know of the best way to uninstall a 3 third party add in? I have uninstalled it from add&remove programs and also from the Excel Add In screen, but the icon for the program still sits in my addin tool bar ( excel 2007 ). I have even looked in the registry and found one reference to it and deleted that as well. What else am i missing?

Victor

that was probably my first post ever…

Never looked at any, not even PUP

My most recent project was FTSE 100, £120 billion Financials, .xls, .doc, vba, etc, all synced up.

Taking a year off work, starting in May, off to Thailand

Going to start some serious code now…

Bye

As a former contribor to Experts Exchange I would like to point out that vast majority of users hold free accounts – it certainly isn’t pay-per-view. And while the site business model does have its drawbacks with a focus on accumulating answers, the EE points system has provided some very lengthy free solutions which would have been better suited to a true paid site such as rentacoder.

In terms of addins I’ve bought something like 80 copies of PUP on behalf of key Excel colleagues in my company. Personally I use Name Manager, FlexFind, Findlink & Smart Indenter on a regular basis.

I do understand the frustration expressed by Mike Alexander re the flood of basic addins that typically are charged at around $30, I partly wrote my own addin as I couldn’t believe that people would actually pay that much money for 20 lines of code with basic functionality.

But recently I had a colleague gushing over a cost curve addin she’d purchased from Mr Excel, it had saved a crtical deadline for a presenatation to senior executives for the price of a decent lunch. So I no longer begrudge someone turning a few $ as there is a genuine need for this assistance – even if the very best Excel experts are generous enough to provide their skills for free.

Cheers

Dave

“However, the cost of developing an Addin should not just be weighed up in pounds and pence, as the developer will learn and develop a bigger code base while doing so, this should be factored in too? “

That as very true. At almost every project I do, I find pieces of functionality I can copy from my top three addins I gave away.

Moreover: creating an addin for the masses is an excellent learning school for creating Excel apps that are robust and that don’t get into trouble in all the states Excel may be in when the user starts using your application.

It is this kind of things that cause a lot of work. For example: I wrote the core of Autosafe in maybe one day. After all, all it does is a timed SaveCopyAs, so it isn’t at all complex, is it? Think again. Just imagine the states the Excel app may be in when my code fires, which sometimes might prevent things from working. One example is what happens when you open a file by clicking a link: it opens inside Internet explorer on many systems. Under the hood, Excel opens and a workbook window with “Object” in its title bar. But since Excel is open as an object in IE, all sorts of things in VBA do not work as you might expect them to. Another example is when you’re editing an Excel sheet that has ben embedded in Word (or any other program for that matter). Try to do a savecopyAs on that workbook object and you’re in trouble. And there are quite some other examples to think of here.