Excel designer cannot be activated

I have Visual Studio 2013 and have a project in development that has worked for a couple of months. All of a sudden I was no longer able to open the excel worksheet in design mode as I get the error "Excel designer cannot be activated". I can open
the code but not the excel designer. I have repaired, reinstalled both VS and Excel. I re-imaged my PC and it worked for about a week or so then I got the same error again. This should not occur or if it is something we are doing incorrectly Microsoft should
be able to tell us what the issue is.
I have seen this question asked 3 times on here without one vote as a valid answer. Obviously this is a bug within Visual Studio. Is Microsoft going to respond with a fix or a workaround that resolves this issue? This issue hinders development of our office
related application project.
One more piece of information. I found out that if someone else logs onto my workstation they do not have the issue. Therefore, this seems to be related to the registry for the current user.

Hi R Mand,
>>All of a sudden I was no longer able to open the excel worksheet in design mode as I get the error "Excel designer cannot be activated". <<
As far as I know, "Visual Studio Tools for Office Design-Time Adaptor for Excel" is used to work for it, please make sure this add-in is active.
Also I found an similar thread about this issue, please let me know whehter it is helpful.
Excel Designer cannot be activated
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