Hi John,
Thank you for your purchase.

1. 
Please provide me a temporary WP-admin login for your site where this happens, so we could log in and take a look ‘from the inside’ as that’s the most efficient way to see and resolve the issue. We do not interfere with any data or anything else except for the plugin (in case that’s a production version of the site), and of course we do not provide login data to third party. You can write credentials here just check Private Reply so nobody can see them except us.

2.
Can you please describe me more because I did not quite understand.
Thank you.

Hi John

1.
Can you try with this code

.dt-buttons {
display: none;
}

In this case all the buttons will be hidden.

2.
Sorry to disappoint you if you take a look at this documentation where you can see the difference between standard wpDataTables and Excel-like tables.
You will find that inline editing is not yet supported for Excel-like tables.

Hi John,

Unfortunately hiding the popup buttons are not available at this moment.
Maybe you can hide them using CSS for one cell but after that when you click on other cell it will show again and currently we do not have that workaround to hide them on every click.
Maybe to uncheck the popup tools for some tables that you do not need to have that functionality.
Thank you for your understanding.