When I try to insert it, I constantly get the "Cannot insert object" error. It seems to be a known issue with former Excel versions, but I couldn't find any support for 2016.
Has anyone been able to make this work?
Here are screenshots:
When I try to insert it, I constantly get the "Cannot insert object" error. It seems to be a known issue with former Excel versions, but I couldn't find any support for 2016.
Has anyone been able to make this work?
Here are screenshots:
Fix ActiveX Controls (such as the Web Browser) in Excel (Office 2013-16)
Navigate to
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000000
Navigate to in order to find the GUID of the control you are trying to fix (I was needing to fix the Web Browser control thus opened its GUID). reference
Open the desired GUID and set dword to 0 (vs. 1024 (400H))
Here is the file path for me:
Win 10 x64 Build 1803 (17134.407)
Hopefully, that helps someone
This appears to be intentional behaviour from Excel 2013 onwards. From this article:
There is a workaround posted in that article which involves editing the registry to make these controls work again.
(The KnowledgeBase article was originally linked from this Microsoft community thread from 2014)
Context of the solution: -Win 10 version 1803 / 64bit os -Excel O365 ClicktoRun version 1806 10228.20080 / 64bit
The registry is located at
And set the "Compatibility Flags" DWord to 0
Note: To reenable the blocking feature set Dword value back to "400"
Killbit option
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