Applies To
Excel for Microsoft 365 Office for business Microsoft 365 admin Microsoft Office

Important: Spreadsheet Inquire is available only in Excel for Windows in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise plans and equivalent editions. Want to see what version of Office you're using?

You want to use the tools in the Spreadsheet Inquire add-in for Excel, but you don't see the Inquire tab in the Excel ribbon. You first need to turn on the Inquire add-in.

  1. Select File > Options > Add-Ins.

  2. Select COM Add-ins in the Manage box, and then select Go.Manage COM Add-ins

  3. In the COM Add-Ins dialog box, check the box next to Inquire.

  4. Select OK.

Note    If you don't see an entry for Inquire Add-in in the COM Add-Ins dialog box, it's because either your version of Excel doesn't include it, or your organization's system administrator has made it unavailable.

After the add-in is turned on, the Inquire tab will appear in Excel.

See also 

Compare workbooks using Spreadsheet Inquire

Compare two versions of a workbook by using Spreadsheet Compare

Analyze a workbook with Spreadsheet Inquire

See links between workbooks

See links between worksheets

See links between cells

Clean excess cell formatting on a worksheet

Manage passwords used to open files for analysis and comparison

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