The second issue is a common one in the app world: Add-in discovery. But, they were annoying and slowed the testing process. The first and biggest problem is that the Excel app crashed frequently during tasks such as installing and add-in or simply working with a spreadsheet. I found a couple of issues with the new Excel add-in feature. And, tapping on one of the names of the western state capital city names in the spreadsheet taps into Wikipedia as you expect. You can see in this screenshot that both the Bing Maps and Wikipedia add-ins are displayed and working at the same time in Excel on the iPad. Closing the Excel Web app and opening the spreadsheet on the iPad let me work with the add-in by, for example, tapping a named location on the map to display the underlying spreadsheet data. This problem was resolved by closing the spreadsheet on the iPad (Excel locks files stored in OneDrive), bringing up OneDrive in a desktop web browser and then working with the Bing Map object using the Excel Web app to move the map and select data from the spreadsheet.

This, however, is because Bing Maps is a mouse-centric add-in that wants you to “hover” a mouse pointer over specific edge segments in order to manipulate the map object. I had problems with the inserted overlapping the spreadsheet data and, seemingly, being able to move or delete the map object. And, here is where it is very useful to have a Microsoft account and use its OneDrive cloud storage. However, like many applications that were designed for use with a mouse or touchpad, its user experience loses something in translation. It turned out that the Bing Maps add-in works with Excel on an iPad. I have to confess something here: I cheated.

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