What is an excel xla file

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to j. First a little background. The add-in I'm most concerned with at present was created for me some time ago by a student using Fortran code that I provided. It's called FieldCalculators. Presently, when FieldCalculators. Thanks for any help you can provide. In reply to MillerJR1's post on January 2, If you cannot open the XLA file on your computer - there may be several reasons. The first and most important reason the most common is the lack of a suitable software that supports XLA among those that are installed on your device.

A very simple way to solve this problem is to find and download the appropriate application. The first part of the task has already been done — the software supporting the XLA file can be found in the table.

Now just download and install the appropriate application. The inability to open and operate the XLA file does not necessarily mean that you do not have an appropriate software installed on your computer. There may be other problems that also block our ability to operate the Microsoft Excel Add-in Format file. Below is a list of possible problems. If you are sure that all of these reasons do not exist in your case or have already been eliminated , the XLA file should operate with your programs without any problem.

If the problem with the XLA file has not been solved, it may be due to the fact that in this case there is also another rare problem with the XLA file. In this case, the only you can do is to ask for assistance of a professional staff. If you want to associate a file with a new program e.

You can store the XLA file in any folder you want. The default location for add-ins is the folder named by the Application. UserLibraryPath property. The value will depend on your version of Excel and your version of Windows. In either case, you will need to check the box next to your add-in to open and load the Add-In. You should change the file properties to display the proper text in the Add-Ins dialog box. Change the Title property to the text that you want to display in the Add-Ins available list box.

Change the Comments property to the text that you want to display in the Add-Ins dialog comment box. Once you have changed the file properties, you need to change the IsAddIn property back to True.

Enter the same command in the Immediate window as you entered earlier but change False to True. Finally, save the file. If desired, you can choose the Protection tab and password protect the VBA code if you don't want others to access the code. Password breakers are widely available.

You should think of the password protection as a means to prevent an innocent user from mistakenly breaking something in the code.