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Excel - Ideas feature!

Anonymous
2020-04-10T23:55:05+00:00

I have just seen the Ideas feature in Excel, which looks like it could be very useful.  In some of the supporting Microsoft tutorials you show a question box in the ideas bar or preview bar, again that would be useful.  I cannot see the the question box?  How can I see the question box?  Thank you!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-14T04:01:46+00:00

    Hi John,

    Idea for Excel is available to Office 365 subscriber in English, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

    You mentioned that you can’t see this feature in toolbar, I would like to confirm that which Office products are you using? Are you using Office 365 subscription or One-Time purchase? You can check the information in Excel-> File-> Account->Products Information.

    If you are an Office 365 subscriber, you can follow the steps to use the latest version of Office. Go to Excel-> File-> Account-> Update Options-> Update Now.

    If the version is already up-to-date, we suggest you go to Excel-> File-> Options-> Customize Ribbon to check if you can add Idea into Main Tabs list. Moreover, can you check whether your colleagues can see this Feature in their Excel?

    @Bob, you can also check my suggestion. If it can’t work, please feel free to contact us and share with your issue information.

    Best Regards,

    Ivy

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-13T22:58:56+00:00

    OK, I have the same issue.  John, the answers provided thus far are stock answers and do not address the problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-11T23:49:00+00:00

    Hi John,

    Idea in Excel is powerful tool to help you analyze data and understand through high-level visual summaries, trends, and patterns. You can follow the steps in this article Ideas in Excel to know more information about Idea feature.

    If you can’t get Idea, it may due to these limits. 

    If you have further question, you can feel free to contact us.

    Best Regards,

    Ivy

    Hi Ivy,

    Thank you for your reply.

    I use Office 365 in my company, so I can see Ideas Lightening bar under the Home tab and it will provide a number of Ideas fo graphs, pivot tables etc.

    However, I cannt see the Ideas question box, which in the Winows demo appears just unre the Ideas Title or Ideas (Preview) Title and allows you to ask structured question?

    This is a very usefull feature, How do I make this appear?

    Thanks

    John

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-11T02:47:59+00:00

    Hi John,

    Idea in Excel is powerful tool to help you analyze data and understand through high-level visual summaries, trends, and patterns. You can follow the steps in this article Ideas in Excel to know more information about Idea feature.

    If you can’t get Idea, it may due to these limits. 

    If you have further question, you can feel free to contact us.

    Best Regards,

    Ivy

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