My macro options are greyed out in Excel 2007. i've adjusted the settings in the trust center and attempted to install the VBA add-in.
I cant record or enable any macros. How do I fix this?
Thanks.
figured it out - it had to do with the initial install. the option to install "with VBA components" was never selected. had to uninstall, then re-install.
now it works beautifully. thanks for the help!
Jason,
The first thing to check is if you can run any macro's at all. What happens when you have the sheet with the macro buttons open and you then open the macro selector ([Alt]+[F8])?
If you can see and run the macro's from there, then you know that running the macro's is not blocked. In that case you could try to add a new set of buttons and throw the old (non-functioning) buttons away. Adding a button is easy. Make sure you have the "developer" tab available (enable in options) and select "controls", "insert". When you click on the button icon, a list of available macros should pop-up.
What I think has happened though is that the macro's where stored in PERSONAL.XLSB and that the sheet (with the buttons) does not contain the macro's. I.e. the sheet is an xlsx file and not an xlsm file. If the macro's where stored on an other sheet, you will have to copy the macro's to the sheet with the buttons. Use [Alt]+[F11] to open the macro editor and copy the macro's to the new sheet. In the macro editor, you will probably have to create a folder "Modules" by selecting "insert", "Modules".
If you need more help, just ask.
Regards,
Robert Ilbrink
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I have some macros attached to buttons in the Quick Access Ribbon. All but one of the buttons have been functioning normally, so I'm not sure when this started.
I tried to use a less-used macro button this morning called Unhide All Sheets and it threw this error:
Cannot run the macro 'PERSONAL.XLSB!UnhideAllSheets.UnhideAllSheets'. The macro may not be available in this workbook or all macros may be deleted."
So I went to review my code and all my macros are invisible from the front-end. I select Developer -> Macros, the list is completely empty, and when I attempt to create new buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar, the macro list there is also completely empty.
When I hit Alt + F11 to open the VBA editor, I can see and update macros in specific workbooks and in my personal workbook. Most of them still run, although the offending macro (UnhideAllSheets) throws an Unexpected Error (35005) when run from the editor.
Anybody ever seen this before? I've been googling for an hour with no results.
Most Macro Buttons still work
Nothing on the Macro List
Customize Ribbon can't see the macros
Still visible and functioning in VBA Editor (except for "UnhideAllSheets")
I have same issue and I manually checked/marked atpvbaen in the tools>references. This has solved my problem !
I was facing a similar issue, where some buttons were working and some weren't. What I noticed was my module's name was similar to my procedure's (macro's) name. I'm not aware of the reason, but I when ensured procedures names' are different than the module names.
In Excel, when opening the list of macros, there are some invalid entries. How to get rid of them?
Background:
I have an extended VBA library, containing a lot of UDFs and subs. I have added descriptions for UDFs using macro options. Maybe i created these invalid entries accidently in the past by a sub, which parses my code modules and generates descriptions for UDFs if this is provided via comments in the code module. This works fine now.
The invalid entries are actually the names of UDFs which do not exist anymore. They should not have appeared unter macros at any time, but again, maybe I messed up in the past.
I also would like to add some description to macros that do exist - but apparently that is only possible for UDFs?
Clarifications:
There is only this one workbook open. These are not macros of a different workbook. I selected "This Workbook only" for list of macros anyway.
There are no addins.
In VBE under Macros these invalid entires do NOT appear.
In Excel, under Developer Tools->Macros they DO appear.
In Excel, under Developer Tools->Macros, I can not edit or delete or execute these entries. Delete is greyed out, edit and execute lead to a popup error saying: "Der Bezug ist ungültig."
If you are referring to the Macro dialog that opens when clicking View > Macros, then note that there is a drop-down with which you can filter to show macros from a particular workbook only.
Use this to find where the "invalid" macros live, then edit that workbook and handle the macros from there (fix them or remove them).
The Macro dialog box that opens from the Developer tab lists all macros in "All open workbooks" by default. In the dropdown that shows this selection you can select to show macros in only a specific workbook. The reverse of this coin is that you can know exactly where any listed macro is located.
There are buttons to the right of the list which allow you to Edit or Delete any of the listed macros. The Edit button will take you to the module where the macro is stored.
There is also an Options button. When you click that another dialog box opens where you can set shortcuts as well as add a description. You can add a description to any listed macro, whether it's used as UDF or otherwise.
I wonder what would happen if a description exists for a macro that has been deleted. If such a situation is supported by Excel pressing the Delete button should rectify it.
I found an answer on microsoft.com:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_winother-mso_2016/cannot-delete-macros/8e9072ae-ad95-49cb-952c-3a50b746d0d2
So it appears my workbook got somehow "corrupted". As I said, I did play with it quite a bit during development. So what I did to fix it:
Export all code modules.
Save workbook as .xlsx under a different name.
Open this cleaned xlsx and save it as xlsm again.
Imported all code modules into this cleaned xlsm.
Manually copied code in worksheet from corrupted version to clean version.
Now the macros are gone in the cleaned version.
I wrote several macro with SAP scripting and other features.
For few of my macros, i need to select a cell, and then run the macro.
All these macros are stored in a add in, hence all my macros are available on every workbook.
I would like to share my addin with my colleagues but I would like to make the macros available from the right click menu.
All pieces of code found here and elsewhere indicate to have a piece of code located in "thisworkbook" tab. Hence the custom right click menu is only available on a specified workbook.
Is it possible to have my macro stored in my add-in accesibble from right click menu for all workbook that I open/use ? like the macro ribbon ?
thank you
I have opened an excel file containing VBA password protected (not belonging to me) and from that moment on what happens is that the code remains in the VBA editor even if I close ALL the files (see atteched pic)
Such filed was called treelist and in the VBA editor "solver.XLMA"
Put in other words. Whatever excel of mine I opened now with or without vba code once I click "editor" the first thing I see is that "solver.XLMA" that I can not access nor delete. It is really anoying because I dont know what this code is doing.
(note: yes, I closed excel several times and opened it again. solver.xlma was still there)
As you see in the picture the "solver.xlma" stais even if I close all the excel workbooks.
Some idea of how can I get rid of it and what is going on here?
thx
It is a solver add-in. To turn it off:
Click the File tab, click Options, and then click the
Add-Ins category.
In the Manage box, click Excel Add-ins, and then click Go. The Add-Ins dialog box appears.
In the Add-Ins available box, clear the check box next to the add-in that you want
to deactivade (Solver), and then click OK.
This is the answer:
That's the Solver Add-In. Go to File > Options > Add-Ins, then click Go beside "Manage Excel Add-ins". Uncheck the Solver Add-in and hit Ok
I created a custom ribbon tab on my Excel like Excel_app_v1.xlsm, and a button under this ribbon tab is connected to a macro. So when I click this button, the macro does some table importing applications.
The first strange thing is that I created this ribbon tab and the button for only this Excel file, but the ribbon tab and the button appear in all other Excel files, even if the original Excel file Excel_app_v1.xlsm is not open.
The second problem is that I created a second version of my previous Excel file with "Save-as" option. So the new Excel file is like Excel_app_v2.xlsm. When I click the button under the ribbon tab, it opens the first Excel file Excel_app_v1.xlsm, even if it is not open. I deleted the first Excel file, but then I got an error like "Couldn't find the Excel_app_v1.xlsm on the path".
So obviously the macro button under the customized ribbon tab is linked to the first Excel file, but I couldn't find the menu option to change this. I added ThisWorkbook before all the sheet expressions in the vba code, but it didn't solve the problem. The button-click is still trying to open the old excel file.
The VBA code is below. The button is linked to the Sub ImportTable. Firstly it asks the user if the user wants to continue with the process. It opens the previous Excel file right after clicking on the button, at the same time as the Message Box appears.
Sub ImportTable()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
YearMonth = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("tab1").Cells(11, 2).Value
' The Macro button opens the previous Excel file before clicking Yes or No on the message box
answer = MsgBox("Warning! Brings the newest source file. You want to continue?", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, "")
If answer = vbYes Then
RunSASCodeViaBatFile ' Another Sub which runs bat file to run a SAS-code. But it doesn't matter. Because the problem happens before I click on Yes or No.
InsertSASFileIntoExcel
Else ' Nothing happens if clicking No on the Message Box
End If
End Sub
The clue to fixing this quickly was posted below by roncruiser, with one slight twist.
Everyone on the web seems to feel that PERSONAL.XLSB is the key here — nope. In fact, playing with that file only confounded me for even longer. Here's what I did instead:
Right click the Ribbon and select Customize The Ribbon;
Navigate to the offending macros that you've installed with buttons;
Find and click on Import/Export;
Export your custom buttons (the macros will go right along just fine);
Open that resulting file, and edit out the offending references to the other file that's causing you so much grief — example:
<mso:button idQ="x1:HideRows_0_EA10D6" label="HideRows" imageMso="_3DPerspectiveDecrease" onAction="!HideRows" visible="true"/>
I took out everything after idQ-"x1... up to the actual name of the macro. I also took out the same external reference found in onAction="... Take everything up to the bang mark.
Save this under whatever name you wish, but with the same extension (for my setup, it was called ExportedCustomizations.exportedUI (yes, that long an extension));
Repeat the first few steps here, but this time import your edited file.
Voila, all is golden.
No messing around with wiping out existing work and starting all over. Worked a charm for me, so a big tip o' The Hat to roncruiser for the clue.
Just to confirm what sumgain have write above.
It works perfectly just do as he said : remove the part after the "x1:" that refers to a specific workbook until the begining of the maccro's name.
example :
When you export your custom ribbon with the maccro attached to it it will be write like below :
idQ="x1:C:_FolderName_Filename.xlsm_Fill_Formulas_Cells"
THen you remove the part mentionned and it will become like that :
idQ="x1:Fill_Formulas_Cells"
Same for onAction keep only the Maccro Name
Then it will works perfectly as long as you the maccro's name in the workbook stay consistent if you modified the Macros name then you have to modified it in the exportedUI file.
Then when you will reload the new file you can check in the Excel Options customize ribbon on the customize button if you put the pointer on you will see "Maccro: Name of your maccro"
And not the path of the file the maccro was from.
No need to use custom UI editor or any other things such as personnal maccro at least for that and if you are not bother to have custom ribbon in all of your woorkbook.
As well it is obvious but still good to remind it, you need to have the maccro in the workbook this procedure is just there to call the maccro that are associate to the workbook, it doesn't contain the code of the maccro.
Cheers
Romain
Does this still work? I have done this in the past with success but can't seem to get it to work now.
I export the file, edit it and import it back in.
it appears to work, but when i close the Ribbon options pane, my custom buttons disappear.
Same exact thing happened to me. There's a way to get around this.
By default, when you create a macro in Excel and run that macro through a custom ribbon button, that ribbon button macro works only in the workbook that contains it.
To get around this and have the button macros work in all workbooks, you'll need to create a Personal Macro Workbook. Then any macros that you store in your personal workbook on a computer become available to you in any workbook whenever you start Excel on that same computer.
Create a Personal Macro Workbook
To get the same ribbon button macros to work on another computer, you'll need to copy the Personal Macro Workbook to another computer and store it in the XLSTART folder. The link above has all the information you'll need.
Note: Delete the old ribbon button macros. Make sure you create new ribbon button macros that reference the macros from your Personal Macro Workbook.