The new Information Rights Management (IRM) is great to protect workbooks from being opened or edited by non authorized users.
Unfortunately it also deactivates all ad-ins. In principle this makes sense as add-ins can access and modify information within the workbook. However, current restrictions go a bit too far as even as an owner/author of the workbook with FULL CONTROL my add-ins are deactivated. Should I not have full rights to do anything with the workbook? In our company thousands of users across EMEA use a self developed add-in to calculate service costs. Now they cannot use IRM as it would block this add-in.

FEATURE REQUEST:

Under "Additional permissions for users" can you please add any of the following options

"allow all add-ins"
"select a specific add-in to be allowed"
"allow all users with FULL CONTROL to use add-ins"

Thank you!

Training the Street, Inc. (TTS) is a prominent Wall Street financial modeling company that trains the majority of Wall Street/finance firms in the United States. TTS has developed an Excel Add-in that thousands of professionals use to enhance their Excel modeling speed. But since Office 365 has started churning out rapid updates, the Add-in has become unreliable and TTS has stated they no longer are making the updates necessary to counter Microsoft's changes. https://trainingthestreet.com/macros/

Is there a way your Dev team could look at this simple Excel Add-in and find a way to add it to the Microsoft Office Add-in Store in a form that would stay compatible with future Microsoft Excel updates and be deployable by Admins to many in their companies. https://trainingthestreet.com/macros/

Personally I can't stand using Excel without this macro. I simply have to resort to mouse clicking vs. quick keys and learning a new set of MSFT based quick keys is not something those who wish to use a certain add-in should be forced to spend time on.

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration,

Jim Spielman

This is an old request for the date picker since Microsoft removed the feature. I have copied an admin response and request for votes starting from 2016.
How is it possible after 5 years there has not been any advancement on this?

With the amount of people that utilize Excel, you are not supporting your customer's needs.
Please get your coders to rectify this as soon as possible. This delay is not acceptable by any means.

Add 'date picker' to enable users to select a date from a mini calendar into cells
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Excel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded · August 07, 2018
Hi all,

We have been working on this, and wanted to get your feedback on how you see this feature fitting into your workflow. We have a quick one question survey for you to give us your thoughts on the look and keyboard shortcuts we have at this time. Please see here for more: aka.ms/datePickerSurvey

Thanks!
Blake, Excel Product Team

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I love the money in excel plugin, however my local bank is not supported yet by plaid which means I can’t add my personal checking account. Without my checking account data I can’t use the plugin the way it was intended. While I would love to see my local bank added and supported I realize that could be awhile or may not happen at all. Therefore, my request is that until they get added we have the option to manually enter transactions into the spreadsheet so I can still use the plugin. The plugin still helps me a lot by automating my credit card data entry, but unless I can add the checking account it is a very incomplete tool for me. Thank you in advance for your consideration.