Remove Ideas button from the Ribbon


This policy setting allows you to prevent users from accessing Ideas in Excel, an intelligent service providing suggestions and analyses based on your data. By default, a button for Ideas appears in the "Ideas" group on the "Home" tab on the ribbon.

If you enable this policy setting, the button for Ideas is removed from the ribbon and users can't add the button to the ribbon manually. Users won't be able to access Ideas.

If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, the button for Ideas appears on the ribbon and users can access Ideas.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\intelligent services
Value Nameinsights
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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