Visual Basic Macros Do Not Work In Office 2008 For Mac

Excel for Office 365 for Mac Excel 2019 for Mac Excel 2016 for Mac To automate a repetitive task so that you can do the task again with a single click, you can use the Developer tab in Excel for Mac to record and run a macro. You can also create a macro by using the Visual Basic Editor in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to write your own macro programming code. If you no longer use a macro, you can delete it. Record a macro When you record a macro, the macro recorder records all the steps required to complete the actions that you want your macro to perform. These steps can include typing text or numbers, clicking cells or commands on the ribbon or on menus, formatting, selecting cells, rows, or columns, and dragging your mouse to select cells on your spreadsheet. The commands for recording, creating, and deleting macros are available on the Developer tab on the Ribbon. If the Developer tab is not available, do the following to display it:.

Select Excel Preferences Ribbon & Toolbar. Under Customize the Ribbon, select Main Tabs and then check Developer. Click Save and then close Excel Preferences. On the Developer tab, click Record Macro.

Note: To create a macro from VBE, click Visual Basic. In the code window of the module, type the macro code that you want to use. In the Macro name box, enter a name for the macro. The first character of the macro name must be a letter. Subsequent characters can be letters, numbers, or underscore characters.

Spaces cannot be used in a macro name; an underscore character works well as a word separator. If you use a macro name that is also a cell reference, you may get an error message that the macro name is not valid. In the Store macro in list, select This Workbook. In the Shortcut key box, type any lowercase letter or uppercase letter that you want to use.

This is from Microsoft regarding macro's in Excel 2008 for Mac With Excel 2008, you can continue to use and maintain Excel 4.0 macros (XLM macros) that have not been upgraded to Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA). Although you cannot record new Excel macros in Excel 2008, you can run and modify them. The Excel Macro Reference provides information including syntax and examples for the macro functions.

You can find more information about the Excel Macro Reference on the Microsoft Web site. You may have to look for an outside 3rd party supported macro creator for Excel.

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In one instance, a clerk working on their Mac, using Windows on their Mac, using VMWARE Fusion, was able to create and record Macros' on his WINDOWS version of Excel, save them in a shared, Windows-Mac folder, then pull them up, in the Mac version of Excel.good luck Sapphire.