Installing the BudgetLink ribbon

Overview

BudgetLink requires an Excel ribbon to be installed. This ribbon is required and provides advanced functionality to Excel.

On some machine, the ribbon may fail to load causes by various issues. The purpose of this article is to resolve this issues.

The .net Framework 4.0 must be installed in order for the ribbon to run.

If not .Net 4.0, you can download it from the following link.

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime must be installed in order for the ribbon to run. You can download it from the following link.

Microsoft Visual Studio ClickOnce Trust Prompts control whether code using the .net Framework can be launched or not.

If none of the steps work, follow the steps below to check and enable Ribbon:

Press Win+R on your keyboard;
In the Run dialog box, enter "regedit" without quotes, and press OK;
Registry Editor dialog box will be displayed;
Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Accounting Addons\BudgetLink\Installation 'n'\Ribbons, where n would be the last installation number
If there is no string "RibbonInstalled", Right click on any blank space on the right side, Click on New > String Value
Name the value: "RibbonInstalled" and set the Data as "True"
Close the editor and open BudgetLink.