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Sadly, the Thomson Reuters Excel add-ins fall into one of these categories. If that tiny tweak requires a disbanded team and development environment to be resurrected, it’s just as unlikely to be fixed as a major job. Sometimes these old applications would require major redevelopment to work, sometimes just a tiny tweak.
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It is asking a lot to expect software written over five years ago to continue working in successive releases of the Windows operating system, and an even harder challenge to make it work within multiple Office environments on each of those platforms.
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Many of the archive specialist database platforms that researchers use are dependent on old and ageing pieces of software.
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When I tried to install TRSL on a Windows 7 PC with Office 2016 installed, I got a message like with Capital IQ, stopping the installation from taking place at all.
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It is not officially supported in anything newer than Office 2010 so I was not expecting it to start working again in Office 2016, but running on the Windows 10 PC Office 2010 showed part of the Excel add-in loading perhaps it had worked on that same PC a few months earlier. Unfortunately I was unable to run Thomson Reuters Spreadsheet Link (TRSL) in Office 2016.
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I am hopeful for this with Capital IQ there will not be an update for either of these Thomson Reuters products tested today. I have not tried to contact their help desk yet perhaps there will be a newer version released to address this. I guess Office 2016 is too far ahead of Office 2003 for it to recognise, even though I had Office 2010 installed as well. When I tried to install Capital IQ Office Plug-in on Windows 7 where Office 2016 was installed, I got an error message that I could not work around: “Unsupported Office Version”.
I tried the usual troubleshooting methods but could not get the data to work. On a Windows 10 PC where I had already installed the software to use with Office 2010, running the Excel add-in on Excel 2016 would let me load the Capital IQ ribbon tab, access the template library, but it would not download any real data. I had a mixed but unsuccessful experience using the Capital IQ Office Plug-in. In summary: Datastream works for me in Office 2016 with Windows 7 32-bit and possibly in some other situations but more testing is required. I could not install it on a Windows 10 64-bit PC, using Office 2010 or Office 2016 it gave error messages such as “Compile error in hidden module: AFOHelp”. (Tip: save the Request Table document the first time it asks you to, otherwise you will get into trouble with macro-enabled filetypes later.) I have seen the previous version of DAO, designed for Office 2003, working with Office 2013 32-bit on Windows 8.1 64-bit (sorry, screen shot not available).ĭatastream in Excel 2016: Although Office 2016 is also not officially supported for DAO, I managed to install it on a Windows 7 32-bit PC and got a Request Table to work. (There is a version for 64-bit Office which I have not tested, called Datastream for Office (DFO), and a Datastream charting add-in, also not tested.)ĭatastream in Excel 2013: Although Office 2013 is not officially supported for DAO, I managed to install it on a Windows 10 32-bit tablet and got a Request Table to work. (I was not able to test Bloomberg due to its more limited restrictions.)ĭatastream in Excel 2016 for Windows 7 Datastreamĭatastream in Excel 2010: The version of Datastream that is most used at The University of Manchester is Datastream Advance for Office (DAO), officially supported by Office 20 32-bit versions and no newer. I have run a few tests installing Thomson Reuters Datastream Advance for Office, Capital IQ Office Plug-in and Thomson Reuters Spreadsheet Link on Windows 7 and Windows 10 systems with Office 2016, specifically to check if their Excel add-ins work correctly. This is not a concern for users of the most specialist financial databases at The University of Manchester Library as the databases are installed on cluster PCs which will remain on Windows 7 with Office 2010 it may become a matter of concern for those at other institutions who are responsible for PC updates in the coming months. Many students beginning their studies this month will arrive at university with this version of Excel on their computers. It brings new features and a design more in line with that of versions of Office released for iOS and Android.
Last month saw the release of the latest version of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Office suite for Windows, named version 2016.
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