Change the name of Excel add-ins ...

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Dragon Fly




Posts: 76
 Joined: 2011-07-27
Hi,

I have two Excel add-ins. When I bring up the Excel Options dialog box and click on the Add-Ins tab, my COM add-in and XLL add-in are listed there. What do I have to modify if I want to change the names listed in the Excel Options dialog box? For example, my COM add-in is currently listed as "StockAddIn" but I would like to change it to say "Stock Portfolio Add-In". Thank you.
Posted 10 Feb, 2012 06:16:25 Top
Eugene Astafiev


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Hi Dragon Fly,

It looks like you are interested in the AddinName property of the add-in module class. But if you want to change the name of your add-in on the end-user PC you can find it in the windows registry (see the FriendlyName key). You can read more about registry entries in the http://www.add-in-express.com/docs/net-deploying-addins.php#registry-keys section of the online documentation. For example, the path on my PC is {HKCU or HKLM}\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins\MyAddin2.AddinModule\FriendlyName.
Posted 10 Feb, 2012 07:47:06 Top
Dragon Fly




Posts: 76
 Joined: 2011-07-27
I changed the AddinName property and it worked. Thank you.
Posted 10 Feb, 2012 08:00:15 Top