Workshoot Menu Bar Hijacked!!

[Michael Rekas]

Hi there

My accounting program have introduced a so-called Business
Intelligence module and have taken the liberty of adding an
additional Worksheet Menu Bar item named "Report Tools" with some
additional sub-menus.

I have tried deleting the menu item as well as reset the Worksheet
Menu Bar which removes the additional item for the current Excel
session.

I have also tried deleting the Excel.xlb file.

As soon as I restart Excel, the additional item is added.

There are no add-ins installed.

There are no files in the Xlstart folders (Office or User).

Much as I want to permanently remove the additional menu item, I am
intrigued to know how it is added.

Can anybody help?

Thanks

Michael

 

[keepITcool]

Most likely is will be added via a com addin...but there would be other
means..

either customize your toolbar so you can get to the ComAddins dialog,
or simply check the registry:
look at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Add-in Manager
and the OPEN lines in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Options





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Michael Rekas wrote :

 

[Michael Rekas]

Hi there keepITcool

Looked in the registry - Nothing but (Default) Type - REG_SZ with
(value not set.) in Add-in Manager

In Options - No Open key.

Please could you explain further what you mean by customize the
toolbar to get to the ComAddins dialog. Could not work out how to do
this.

Thanks

Michael

P.S. Whoops! Sorry for the mispelling of Worksheet in the Subject
line!!

 

[Michael Rekas]

Hi there

Looked again in the registry and located the add-in in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section. Deleted the key and it sorted out the
problem.

I would appreciate it if you could point me in a direction to find out
more about com add-ins.

Thanks for the help.

Regards

Michael

 

[Norman Jones]

Hi Michael,

I would appreciate it if you could point me in a direction to find out
more about com add-ins.

As a starting point, see the following MSDN articles:

http://tinyurl.com/5vsx

 

[Michael Rekas]

Thanks Norman

Very helpful.

Rgds
Michael

Hi Michael,



As a starting point, see the following MSDN articles:

http://tinyurl.com/5vsx