Excel 2016 Touch Screen Environment

Question

I am very happy to see Excel 2016 fully pseudo tablet ready with all of its screen gestures and screen swipes. We are trying to develop apps for tables (there are so many win10 tablets being offered) that run the full version of office 2016 and not the mobile version of office which does not support .xlsm files. 

We are really hoping that MS makes the full version of office 2016 available on the new iPads with the intel iCore processors and the android tablets and not just the mobile version. Knowing all this, is there a separate group of variables or environment variables that are unique to Excel 2016 running on touch screens? For example, on all our worksheets we trap the use of right-click which works great everywhere even Excel 2016 on the tablet, but on the tablet if you press your touch and hold on any cell on a protected sheet a totally separate new shortcut menu pops up with items such as:

Cut

Copy

Paste Options

...

...

...

...

Filter

Sort

ect.

Where do we control that at? My other posting earlier was with being able to stop all the screen scrolling on desktops and especially on touch tablets. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

P.S.

I wish this board would update its option as to the selection inSystem and device with another option "Office for Windows 10 Touch Screen"

One thing I'd like to know specifically about Win10 Touch is when say our app is running on a touch tablet some users have their task bar on auto-hide and it would be nice to be able to call the Win10 screen keyboard from our app and preferably be able to put it into split keyboard or, really what we would like is to be able to split the Win10 screen keyboard and only show the Num Pad on some of our form entry screens.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You did not address any of my concerns? Is there any way to trap the screen gestures and swipes with code so that we can control the navigation? Also, any way to call the win10 keyboard? I have many wishes of "I wish I could do..." list with excel. Been using excel since it first came out on mac then on windows. Is there any direct contact with you/ms to assist with direct questions and remedies?

Thanks.

Answer 2

Hello,

In comparison with Excel 2016 Desktop, Excel working on devices have some limitations.

I understand how difficult it is if things do not work as expected.

We appreciate your continued interest in Microsoft products and services and especially with regards to this requirement of yours in Excel. Microsoft is committed to continuously improving your experience with our products. We listen to all feedback and consider it for future releases. Your feedback helps us know which features are most important to you.

Hope the above information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.