.. _getting_started: ====================================================== 1. Getting started with AStablish on Microsoft Excel ====================================================== This section covers all you need to know for AStablish before you start using AStablish. ----------------------- 1.1. Before you start ----------------------- * Ensure that you have access to the latest version of Excel (at least 2016 or later) and an active Microsoft 365 subscription. * Ensure that your Microsoft account is a Work or School account. * Ensure you are using either Excel on Desktop or for Excel on Web, the browser should be new Edge. If you are using Excel on Web, AStablish does not support the following browsers: * Internet Explorer * Microsoft Edge Legacy For example, on Internet Explorer 11, running AStablish will show a message: **This add-in will not run in your version of Office. Please upgrade either to perpetual Office 2021 (or later) or to a Microsoft 365 account.** AStablish does not run on the following instances: * Excel for Android * Excel for iPad * Excel for Mac However, if you are using a Mac device, you may run AStablish on Excel on Web. -------------------------- 1.2. AStablish's features -------------------------- One of AStablish's features is checking whether a wallet address has appeared in any blacklist. The current blacklist AStablish checks against is: * US Treasury OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control). All wallet addresses for the blockchains that are in the OFAC Blacklist are supported for the blacklist check. These include: - Arbitrum (ARB) - Bitcoin Cash (BCH) - BNB Smart Chain (BSC) - Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) - Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - Dash (DASH) - Ethereum Classic (ETC) - Ethereum (ETH) - Litecoin (LTC) - Tron (TRX) - USD Coin (USDC) - Tether (USDT) - Monero (XMR) - Ripple (XRP) - Verge (XVG) - Zcash (ZEC) The current list of blockchains that AStablish supports is: * Bitcoin * Ethereum * BNB * Polygon * Arbitrum One * Dogecoin * Cardano * Sei EVM (Testnet) * Solana * Litecoin * Polkadot * Bitcoin Cash * Avalanche * Ton * Optimism * Dash * Gnosis * Zcash * Handshake * Polygon zkEVM * Fantom The current list of wallet address formats AStablish supports for Bitcoin is: * **Legacy P2PKH**, wallet address which starts with "1", for example: **1Nk6Bp97FJSRRwkEa6zJJuFWSXrUDs8w1v** * **P2SH**, wallet address which starts with "3", for example: **3GBKyMHBBnxLBJYzCReDsaLkohd17o1KWj** * **Segwit P2WSH**, wallet address which starts with "bc1", followed by a Base32-encoded witness version (0) and a Base32-encoded script hash, for example: **bc1q9p60rky2tcnscuw20k4vq9z72lpq5v4f7j** * **Segwit P2WPKH**, wallet address which starts with "bc1", followed by a Base32-encoded witness version (0) and a Base32-encoded public key hash, for example: **bc1q0pl5p4xaq8jwg2k2l8er2lt02wvnnuyjgu7vz6j8c** * **P2TR**, wallet address which starts with "bc1p", for example: **bc1pmzfrwwndsqmk5yh69yjr5lfgfg4ev8c0tsc06e** The current wallet address formats AStablish supports for Ethereum: * Starts with "0x" and has a total of 40 Base16 characters, for example: **0x683ca400dd0Dc32ff395D93ec12ead409FeCbC84** Do note that for AStablish's features: * For **Check against blacklist**, only wallet addresses are sent to pQCee's server to check against the blacklist. * For **Transaction Details** and **Wallet Blockchains**, only wallet addresses are sent to third-parties. ----------------------------------------- 1.3.1. Installation for Excel on Desktop ----------------------------------------- 1. Open Desktop Excel and load any Excel Workbook. 2. Install the Add-in: a. Click **File** in the top-left corner. A Task Pane will show up on the left. b. Click **Get Add-ins** on the left. An **Office Add-ins** Dialog box will appear. c. Under **STORE**, search for **AStablish**, an AStablish icon will appear. .. image:: _static/AStablishIcon.png :alt: Image for Transaction Details d. Click on the icon and you may view additional information regarding AStablish. e. Click the Add button if you wish to use the AStablish solution. f. Click Continue. 3. To activate **AStablish for Office Add-in**, click AStablish icon in the Excel Home Ribbon. An AStablish Task Pane will appear on the right. 4. Congratulations! You have installed AStablish for Office Add-in. ---------------------------------------- 1.3.2. Installation for Excel on Web ---------------------------------------- 1. Open Desktop Excel and load any Excel Workbook. 2. Install the Add-in: a. Click **File** in the top-left corner. A Task Pane will show up on the left. b. Click **More Add-ins**. c. Click **Get Add-ins** on the left. An **Office Add-ins** Dialog box will appear. d. Under **STORE**, search for **AStablish**, an AStablish icon will appear. e. Click on the icon and you may view additional information regarding AStablish. f. Click the Add button if you wish to use the AStablish solution. g. Click Continue. 3. To activate **AStablish for Office Add-in**, click AStablish icon in the Excel Home Ribbon. An AStablish Task Pane will appear on the right. 4. Congratulations! You have installed AStablish for Office Add-in. ------------------------------------------- 1.4.1. Uninstallation for Excel on Desktop ------------------------------------------- 1. Click **File** in the top-left corner. A Task Pane will show up on the left. 2. Click Options. An **Excel Options** Dialog box will appear. 3. Click **Trust Center** on the left, and click **Trust Center Settings** button. The **Trust Center** Dialog box will appear. 4. Click **Trusted Add-in Catalogs** on the left. The Dialog box contents updates to show **Trusted Web Add-in Catalogs** on the right. 5. Check the **Next time Office starts, clear all previously-started web add-ins cache** option, and click the **OK** button. A notification will pop up to inform the User that this change will be applied when Desktop Excel is restarted. 6. Quit Desktop Excel. The Add-ins will be removed when you start Desktop Excel subsequently. ---------------------------------------- 1.4.2. Uninstallation for Excel on Web ---------------------------------------- 1. Open Desktop Excel and load any Excel Workbook. 2. Uninstall the Add-in: a. Click **File** in the top-left corner. A Task Pane will show up on the left. b. Click **Get Add-ins**. c. Click **Manage my Add-ins**, you will see the AStablish icon in the list of add-ins you have on Excel. d. Right click on the AStablish icon and select **remove**.