Add-ins.com - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Assistant Improvements

All future improvements will be to the above release only. This release is compatible with Excel 2007 and backward compatible to Excel 97. When we do improvements we will post an upgrade exe for a free upgrade to licensed users of this version.

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Upgrade EXE for Version 8 users - Version 8 must be installed for the upgrade to install to the latest release

Latest improvements:

Apr 14, 2008 - Added a custom toolbar manager feature as this feature was dropped in Excel 2007. One can now add Spreadsheet Assistant commands to any custom toolbar. One can also re-arrange, rename, and delete both custom toolbars and buttons.
Mar 7, 2008 - Modified the select and fill down features to do cell selection based on entries to the right in case there is no basis on the cells to the left to do a selection.
Feb 5, 2008 - Modified the feature to edit the format menu items under the Format menu to allow Excel 2007 users to change the format settings.
July 3, 2007 - Digitally signed our installation exe and add-in using a software code signing certificate from Thawte to add another level of security and confidence in our products. It allows users to maintain macro security on the high security setting in Excel and still run our add-ins.
June 21, 2007 - Modified the Favorites Bookmark feature to be easier to use
April 27, 2007 - Modified the expand pivot table range feature to be easier to use
April 25, 2007 - Added the ability to use any image as a button face for a Spreadsheet Assistant feature assigned to a button
March 29, 2007 - Several minor fixes for several features for Excel 2007
March 23, 2007 - Updated the documentation for various changes made for Excel 2007
March 21, 2007 - Version 8 released which is compatible with Excel 2007 and backward compatible to Excel 97.
2006
- Minor change to the file rename and move feature
- Minor change for French version of Excel pivot tables
- Minor changes to improve startup
- Minor dialog and menu improvements
- Added a Hide/Show formula bar feature to the View menu
- Fixed a problem with exporting reports and merged cells.
- Improved detection of error cells when doing conditional select of error cells.
- Modified select to the right feature to work even if blank rows above selection
- Modified select blank features to select blanks even if Excel's normal limits are exceeded.
- Modified add-in un-install to remove menu items left in some situations
- Modified the menus so that they do not disappear when one stops the Excel closing process (by clicking cancel when prompted to close a file). The modification also speeds up loading of the Spreadsheet Assistant.
- Fix the rename the active file feature - it had been disabled when changes made to another feature.
- Modified the set the default directory feature to suggest the active directory and the active workbook's directory in addition to retaining the feature of selecting any directory.
- Improved the Favorite Bookmarks and Favorite Directories features.
- Modified delete blank rows to handle more than 32 000 rows
- Modified the blank duplicate entries to suggest an alternate approach when more than 10 000 cells are selected. This alternative approach which can handle extremely large number of cells does not have undo capability.
- Modified the export reports from selected sheets feature to delete any hidden rows and columns on the reports.
- Modified code (not features) of several features to make them run faster

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