[Bug] Microsoft Excel is loosing menu and ribbon bar

[s-v-o]

I have a strange behaviour with Microsoft Excel.

When I start Excel, everything is fine:

After changing the workspace and comming back the menu and ribbon bar disappear:

Even stranger: Everything works fine in Word.

I cannot say excactly in which version of GlazeWM I first noticed this.

There are no new entries in errors.log.

[alexanderi96]

same behaviour by me. Didn't consider it was a glazewm problem.

[CalvinTrop]

Same issue here, which unfortunately renders the project unusable for my current workflow...

[kirpy0x]

Same here on Win11. If I remember correctly, this didn't happen on Win10.

I thought it was an issue with my Excel Installation but then noticed they all disappeared right once a Window management action was done.

[rwijtvliet]

Same here. FWIW, I'm on Win10 enterprise edition.

[hongyuanjia]

Same here. I'm on Win 10 Pro 22H2. Word and PowerPoint work perfectly fine.

[AttackOnTyler]

Can confirm, Toggling full screen doesn't remedy the issue either.

Edit: After playing around with it more, it seems to only affect the excel workbook on move or focus to workspace. If i'm in the workspace the Excel App is going to bind to, I get the ribbon. I tried the panes as well, like the 'Queries and Connections' pane and the 'Navigation' pane. They seem to disappear as they are either focused on or off. I'm going to try some float settings, as they may be getting "left" on a different focus layer??? I don't know if that makes sense.

[s-v-o]

FWIW: As a workaround I've added this to my config.yaml:

- command: "ignore"
  match_title: "/Excel/"

So Excel is ignored from GlazeWM and I could use it. But of course this way Excel is not managed by GlazeWM.

[Contrabass26]

I get two different windows when I open a workbook...

Then after switching workspaces the ribbon disappears as others have said.

[LJFRIESE]

+1 on this still being an issue. Super frustrating. As soon as glaze interacts with the excel window, the ribbon is gone.

[s-v-o]

The rust rewrite is also affected (preview version) (#604)

[LJFRIESE]

I believe this issue has been identified in other window-management software. This discussion might provide useful information: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/excel-ribbon-disappearing-when-switching-virtual/8fe6fa89-7b96-439e-aa6b-0ae5f6b9c275

Haven't worked out how to apply it to glaze.

[superwhoopy]

To get the ribbon back quickly, you can type <C-o><Esc>: it opens the "Open" menu (<C-o>) then closes it (<Esc>). For some reason, Excel re-draws the ribbon in that scenario.

Not exactly a workaround, but at least you don't have to close/re-launch Excel every time… 😒

[LJFRIESE]

Oh geeze, thank you! That worked an is good enough for now, honestly. I was losing my mind.

[alyraecap]

In case newbs like me didn't understand superwhoopy's solution at first, it's Ctrl+O then Esc in Excel for regular Windows users.

[rmanthorpe]

This issue is resolved with #792 released in v3.6!

[alyraecap]

I can confirm too it's finally fixed!