Excel in Citrix environment

Hi All,
Does someone has experience with Excel 2013 in a Citrix environment? To be more specific, we must be able to save files as a char-s-v file. I did not say as .csv file because we must be able to use the pipe character "|" as delimiter. (Historical
reasons)
AFAIK, this is not possible with Excel, therefore I've written an add-in that can be installed - let's say - on each physical CPU.
I could install it also in the Citrix environment but don't know how to go further for the colleagues. Does everyone has to install the add-in or is there a better way and use some kind of "global" installation of the add-in?
Will the use of the add-in by user A interfere the usage for user B?
Or is this not a good idea at all?
Any feedback is very appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Jan Karel,
Thanks, very helpful tip. In meantime I was able to experiment a bit and has faced another issue.
The add-in is creating a .INI file at first installation to hold the user's preferred settings. The historical reason to use an INI file is that each update was overwriting the preferred settings, replacing them by mine. Some users prefer the international
numberformat while others keep the Belgium format but the add-in has the option to easily switch between both formats. To respect this, I opt for an INI file because I'm not sure that everyone has the rights to change the registry (I mean by VBA; maybe, I'm
wrong in this) and during the load of a new version it is checking if the INI exists or not. If not, force the user to define the settings or skip this part.So everyone has to use "my" preferred settings or do you have the magic way to create a personalized
INI?
We have all a personal folder in the Citrix environment but want to keep it as general as possible and do not see directly how to detect the environment.
BTW, you can find the add-in here:
JP Extension
Kind regards,

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