There are times when you may want to configure permissions for Excel in the DCOM configuration tool. This is a fairly straightforward process if you follow http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms678426(VS.85).aspx - "Setting Process-Wide Security Using...

Normally copy/paste operations in Excel are pretty instantaneous. You copy data from one place and then paste into a cell in Excel. Pretty straightforward. But what do you do if you notice that copy/paste seems to take an excesseively long time when doing...

For some users, Form Controls (FM20.dll) are no longer working as expected after installing MS14-082 Microsoft Office Security Updates for December 2014. Issues are experienced at times such as when they open files with existing VBA projects using forms...

Office File Validation, or OFV, was a new security feature (an add-in) released in Office 2010 and is installed as part of MS11-021, released in April 2011. It was back ported to Office 2007 and 2003. KB Article 2501584 states, "Office File Validation...

We have had reports of the Microsoft Excel 2013 PowerPivot or PowerView add-ins not loading in the ribbon. When users then try to add the add-ins (File > Options > Add-ins) by browsing to the .dll’s in the COM dialog, they are not added...