One global Taskpane for all windows

Add-in Express™ Support Service
That's what is more important than anything else

One global Taskpane for all windows
 
Subscribe
Andre Herrmann




Posts: 12
 Joined: 2022-11-05
Hello Add-in Express Team,

We have set up an Advanced Taskpane in Excel that displays a folder tree with interactive items. Ideally, we would like this taskpane to be visible only in the active workbook.

We’ve noticed that when multiple workbooks are open, Addin Express creates multiple taskpane instances by default. This results in multiple independent folder trees, which makes it difficult to keep their states synchronized.

As a workaround, we managed to show the taskpane only on the active workbook window and hide it in others. However, these are still separate taskpane instances with different states.

Our goal is to always display the same single taskpane instance, regardless of how many workbooks are open.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Andre
Posted 11 Sep, 2025 07:58:52 Top
Andrei Smolin


Add-in Express team


Posts: 19172
 Joined: 2006-05-11
Hello Andre,

Consider putting your controls on a UserControl. In this case you can put the UserControl on a pane (whatever pane instance is shown).

Regards from Poland (GMT+2),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 11 Sep, 2025 10:22:51 Top