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Add-in can't run in Office Professional Plus 2016


One of my add-ins, Formula Formatter, works well in Office 365. However, one client told me it cannot be loaded in Office Professional Plus 2016.

Does anyone know what may be the reason? Should we do something special in the manifest xml for Office Professional Plus 2016?

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Solution

  • In its manifest, Formula Formatter specifies the requirement set ExcelAPI with a minimum version of 1.2. Per the documentation for that requirement set (https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/requirement-sets/excel-api-requirement-sets) your customer will need to be running "Version 1601 (Build 6741.2088) or later". Customers that have a non-subscription version of Office won't have that requirement set.

    If you remove the requirement set from the manifest, your add-in would be available on Office 2016 but you would need to ensure that your add-in has a good user experience when they are not present.