Office Scripts are no longer showing in Excel for the web

For a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family account, first verify that Office Scripts’ preview requirements still apply to the signed-in account—Microsoft 365 Insider participation and connected experiences must be enabled—then test the script catalog in a browser session that permits third-party cookies.^1^

Your .osts file remaining under OneDrive → Documents → Office Scripts means it is still in the documented storage location; do not delete, rename, or move it while troubleshooting because those changes are reflected in Excel’s Script Gallery.^2^

1. Verify the Personal/Family preview prerequisites

Office Scripts remains a preview feature for Personal and Family subscriptions. Confirm all of the following:

1. Excel for the web is signed in with the same Microsoft account that owns the script in OneDrive.
2. That account has a qualifying Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription.
3. The account/device participates in the Microsoft 365 Insider program.
4. Microsoft 365 connected experiences are enabled.
5. Internet access is available without a content blocker preventing Microsoft 365 services.

If Insider participation or connected experiences were disabled or changed, restore that requirement, close Excel’s browser tabs, and reopen the workbook. Microsoft directs Personal/Family users who continue experiencing preview issues to report them through Excel → Feedback.^1^

2. Isolate browser or account-session loading

Because the scripts were previously visible and now only samples load, test whether Excel can read the script catalog in a clean session:

1. Open Excel for the web in a different supported browser—for example, use Edge or Chrome instead of Safari.
2. Sign out of any additional personal, work, or school Microsoft accounts.
3. Sign in only with the account that owns the .osts file.
4. Open the workbook and select Automate → View Scripts or All scripts.
5. Check whether the personal script appears.

A similar Excel for the web case was diagnosed as likely browser/profile or account-session specific, with a different browser and the correct account recommended as the isolation test.^3^

3. Allow third-party cookies

Excel for the web requires third-party cookies to display and load Office Scripts correctly.^1^

In the browser’s Privacy/Cookies settings:

• Allow third-party or cross-site cookies for Microsoft 365, Excel, and OneDrive.
• If using a private window, check the setting inside that session because private mode may block them separately.
• Temporarily disable content-blocking extensions for the Microsoft 365 site, then reload Excel.

Microsoft lists blocked third-party cookies among the primary checks when Office Scripts are unavailable.^4^

4. If every browser still shows only samples

This pattern has also been reported when Excel for the web could not load the Office Scripts catalog service, so a service-side failure is possible but cannot be confirmed solely from the missing gallery.^5^

• Submit Excel for the web → Help → Feedback, including:
  • “Only sample scripts are shown.”
  • The approximate date the personal scripts disappeared.
  • Confirmation that the .osts files remain in OneDrive.
  • Browsers tested and whether third-party cookies were allowed.
• If this is actually a work or school account, ask the Microsoft 365 administrator to review Service Health and verify that Office Scripts has not been disabled. Conditional Access authentication-context settings do not support Office Scripts in Excel for the web; if that condition exists, Excel for Mac or Windows is the documented alternative.^1^

References

1. Platform limits and requirements with Office Scripts
2. Office Scripts file storage and ownership - Office Scripts
3. Who do I ask, Microsoft, SharePoint, Excel Online experts, OneDrive....? - Microsoft Q&A
4. Troubleshoot Office Scripts - Office Scripts | Microsoft Learn
5. Office Scripts not working in Excel Web (catalog server error), but ...