Disabling Mini Toolbar on Excel while using a touchscreen

Question

I am using Excel 2016 on a touchscreen, but I seem to fail to disable the mini toolbar for good. My OS is Windows 10 64-bit

What I want to do is click on a excel worksheet without having the mini toolbar to show up. For the proper usage of the current setup it is crucially important that this option would never show up. Trying to prevent this we have tried following:

1. Uncheck "Show Mini Toolbar on Selection" from options
2. Disabled "Touch and Hold" for right clicking in Pen and Touch options
3. Change value in register \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch "TouchMode_hold" to 3

Currently Excel is the only application I keep having this issue with. I was hoping if anyone would know something else i could try to counter this problem?

Answer 1

If that's the case, I would suggest send your concern on our Excel UserVoice.  Your feedback will help us improve our ability to serve you and other users of Excel.

Regards.

Answer 2

Hello Antoneth,

1. I havent tried anything else than what i had listed above to try to disable the toolbar with a touchscreen device, this is in fact my first time using excel with a touchscreen device.
2. I did not do any other changes to my device than connect it to the touchscreens and set them up and running properly through tablet PC settings.

3.  Excel version that i am using: Microsoft Excel 2016 MSO (16.0.4738.1000) 32-bit. It is an enterprise version and our updates are handled through different route (software center) and there seems to be none.

For now we have found a temporary solution where we add a line of code to VBA:

Application.CommandBars("Cell").Enabled = False

This makes me think that the thing that shows up on touchscreen looks like mini toolbar but might be something else maybe? It looks like this: 

But it would be nice if Excel would support disabling unnecessary toolbars when using touchscreen, for now i haven't found such option that works.

Kind Regards

Renethe

Answer 3

Hello Renethe, 

I'd like to know more about this concern, please provide the following information:

• Have you tried disabling the Mini toolbar (while using a touchscreen device) before?
• Were there any changes made to your device prior to the issue?
• What version of Excel are you using? To check, click this link.

 In the meantime, it’s a good idea to make sure your Excel is up-to-date. Updates often fix problems that occur with software. For initial troubleshooting, try installing Office updates, restarting your computer, and then launching Excel.

Please respond to this thread to let me know how the issue progresses. Similarly, if you have more questions, please inform me by replying to this post.