Kixlogic Hero

Your Excel superpower — the close and payroll checkers, and 45 utilities.

Runs on your computer. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Excel installs an add-in from one small file, the manifest. It contains no code — only the add-in's name, its ribbon and the address it loads from.

Download Kixlogic-Hero-manifest.xml

Excel at work (Microsoft 365)

  1. Open any workbook in Excel on the web: office.com (a desktop workbook can be opened there via File ▸ Share ▸ Open in browser, or from OneDrive/SharePoint).
  2. Home ▸ Add-ins (or Insert ▸ Add-ins) ▸ More Add-ins.
  3. Choose the MY ADD-INS tab. At the top right click Upload My Add-in ▸ Browse… ▸ pick Kixlogic-Hero-manifest.xml ▸ Upload.
  4. A Kixlogic Hero tab appears on the ribbon for that browser session.
No Upload My Add-in link on the MY ADD-INS tab? Then your company has switched off user-uploaded add-ins for everyone, and nothing you do on your PC changes that. Send IT the note below — deploying it takes them a few minutes and puts Kixlogic Hero on the ribbon of every Excel (desktop and web) for the people they choose.
For IT — deploying Kixlogic Hero
  1. Microsoft 365 admin center ▸ Settings ▸ Integrated apps ▸ Upload custom apps.
  2. App type Office Add-in ▸ Provide link to manifest file ▸ https://hero.kixlogic.com/addin/manifest.xml ▸ Validate.
  3. Assign the users or groups; accept; done. It appears in their Excel within a few hours.

What it is: an Office task-pane add-in (the same technology as the Microsoft-built add-ins). Every file it loads comes from hero.kixlogic.com over HTTPS, including Microsoft's Office.js library. It makes no other network request, has no telemetry, no sign-in and no server side: the workbook is read inside Excel and only ever written back into Excel. If your web filter allows by hostname, hero.kixlogic.com is the only one Excel needs; keys.kixlogic.com is the browser page where a purchased seat key is issued. Questions: hello@kixlogic.com.

Excel for Windows (desktop) — works without IT on most PCs

Desktop Excel has no Upload My Add-in button; that is by design, not a fault. It loads an add-in from a shared folder instead. At work that is a team or department share, at home your own PC's.

  1. Save Kixlogic-Hero-manifest.xml into a folder of its own, e.g. C:\Kixlogic, and share that folder (right-click ▸ Properties ▸ Sharing ▸ Share, give yourself Read access). At work you can instead use a team share you already have, e.g. \\fileserver\HR\Kixlogic.
  2. File ▸ Options ▸ Trust Center ▸ Trust Center Settings ▸ Trusted Add-in Catalogs.
  3. In Catalog Url paste the folder's network path, e.g. \\YOUR-PC\Kixlogic. Click Add catalog, tick Show in Menu, OK twice.
  4. Close Excel completely and reopen it.
  5. Home ▸ Add-ins ▸ More Settings (older builds: Insert ▸ My Add-ins) ▸ the SHARED FOLDER tab ▸ Kixlogic Hero ▸ Add.
Two things catch people here. The Catalog Url must be a real network path starting \\: a plain C:\Kixlogic is accepted and then silently never works. And missing Show in Menu means the add-in never appears. If the Trusted Add-in Catalogs page is greyed out, or Windows will not let you share the folder, company policy has blocked this route — send IT the note above instead.

What it loads

Only files from this origin: the pane, its script, and Office.js served from here. No request ever carries workbook content anywhere — the add-in reads the open workbook inside Excel and writes only to it.