Office 2016

Excel 2016 is supported by SIM Suite 6.1 sp1 and upwards. However, an issue in the KBC installer may prevent the ribbon bar add-in from being installed on clean machines that have never had previous versions of Excel installed. The issue will be resolved in Petro-SIM 7.0 and, eventually, the future 6.2 sp2 and 6.1 sp4 releases.

If your IT department deploys the SIM Suite using their own custom packages, this is not likely to be an issue.

In the meantime, if you use the KBC installer, you will need to paste the following commands into a batch file and run it with administrative privileges prior to installation.

   @echo off
   setlocal
   rem change following line to 64 for Office 64-bit
   set excelBits=32
   set hive=/reg:%excelBits%
   reg query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0 %hive% >NUL 2>&1
   if %errorlevel% equ 1 reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0 %hive% >NUL
   endlocal