Display Developer tab in the Ribbon

This policy setting controls whether the Developer tab will be displayed in the Ribbon.

If you enable this policy setting, the Developer tab will be displayed in the Ribbon.

If you disable this policy setting, the Developer tab will not be displayed in the Ribbon.

If you do not configure this policy setting, the Developer tab will not be displayed in the Ribbon, but its visibility can be changed via a setting in the application Options dialog box.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options
Value Name	developertools
Value Type	REG_DWORD
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

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