Cannot use Date and Time Picker in Office 2013

Question

Since few days I have tried to apply this ActiveX to my Excel 2013. I made small app for running reports in Excel and I need some way to pick start and end date.

Easiest way to do it was Date And Time Picker Control which is in %windir%\syswow64\mscomct2.ocx. It worked perfectly at Windows 7 64-bit + Excel 2010 32-bit.

When I moved my project to other PC with Windows 7 64-bit and Office 2013 32-bit it stopped working. Firstly there was class missing, so I registered Microsoft Windows Common Controls 2 6.0 (SP3) in syswow64 using regsvr32.exe command.

It did not help - it was keep saying "cannot insert object". Tried another versions of Common Controls (currently SP6), but problem is still there - I can`t put any control to my Excel worksheet.

I`m running out of ideas and tutorials, so maybe some of You had ran into this type of problem and have solution?

Answer 1

It's best that you just abandon your search for a Microsoft solution. They haven't updated the common controls for 64-bit. Your best options are to create your own ActiveX Control by wrapping the Date And Time Picker Control from .Net or communicate using COM and expose the features that you want, or use one of the custom VBA solutions that can be found on Ron de Bruin's Calendar/Date Picker page.

I've used this one - Calendar Control for All Office versions - including Office 2010 64 bit

but this one looks better IMO - A Pop-up Calendar for Excel 2007 and up

Even if you can get it running on your machine, if you work at a large company, like myself, you'll never get IT to deploy the fix to everyone.

Edit: was getting confused with MSCOMCTL.OCX issues