I have just installed ChemBio office 2010 and have been trying to use Chemdraw 12.0 in Excel. However despite Chemdrawexcel12 being ticked in the "add ins" I can not access any Chemdraw functionality. Is their any fix for this?

I have just installed ChemBio office 2010 and have been trying to use Chemdraw 12.0 in Excel. However despite Chemdrawexcel12 being ticked in the "add ins" I can not access any Chemdraw functionality. Is their any fix for this?

Have a look at the ‘disabled items’ in Excel. You can find the same by the following way:

1. Launch Excel 2007 / 2010 and click the Microsoft Office Button.
2. Now click the Excel Options button, it will open the categories pane, click on Add-ins.
3. In the details pane, locate the add-in in the Disabled Application Add-ins list.

The Name column specifies the name of the assembly, and the Location column specifies the full path of the application manifest.


4. In the Manage box, click Disabled Items (select “Disabled Items” from the drop down list for “Manage” in the Excel Option dialog box), and then click Go.
5. Select the add-in and click Enable and click the Close button.

[To re-enable an add-in that has been hard disabled by Excel 2003, please try the following.

1. Launch Excel 2003
2. Go to the Help menu and select “About Microsoft Excel”, it will open the “About Microsoft Excel” dialog box.
3. Click the “Disabled Items” button on the “About Microsoft Excel” dialog box.
4. Now check the “Disabled Items” dialog box. If you have ChemDraw for Excel addin is listed in that select and click the “Enable” button and retest the problem]

In some systems, a patch from Microsoft is needed to make the Excel add-ins work (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002). This patch can be found by navigating to the following location on the CD or in the downloaded installer: Installers\Cambridgesoft\SharedAddIn.