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After you have created your own add-in, you can use it in your system. Once the add-in has been loaded, the functions or features in the add-in become available to any other workbook you may have open, or any time you are using Excel. All you need to do to use your add-in is follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Add-Ins dialog box.
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2015-11-04 10:37:57
Willy Vanhaelen
@Lucilla
You can't run an add-in. It loads automatically every time you run Excel. You can access it in the VB editor and insert macros in a module. However those macros are not visible in the Run macro dialog box but they can be assigned to a button in the QAT or you can assign a shortcut key to them via the OnKey method like this (insert it in the add-inn's 'ThisWorkbook' code sheet):
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.OnKey "^+a", "ShowAll" 'Shift+Ctrl+A
End Sub
You can also run an add-in's macro from a custom command in the ribbon. For more info on this, see my website at: http://wv-be.com/Ribbon.asp
2015-11-03 12:13:12
Lucilla
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your tips! I am quite new with Add-Ins but also quite good with Macros. I have a macro that, with some files as input produce me a power point with graphs and tables. Now, I would like to create an Add-In from this macro. I saved the file as .xlam and I have added the Add-In on my excel... now??? how can I run the add-in? I cannot find it anywhere! I see it in the list of add-ins from the "option" menu, but from the workbook I cannot call it. I am using excel 2007.
Thanks a lot for any support you can give to me!
Best regards
Lucilla
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