First, be sure that the Developer tab is visible in the toolbar in Excel. You can access the VBA environment in Excel 2011 for Mac by opening the Visual Basic editor. The new VB Editor contains a lot of the features we are used to seeing in the Windows versions of Excel, or Excel 2011 for Mac. The toolbars (menu bar and quick access bar) are missing in the Visual Basic Editor in Excel. You can always run a macro by clicking the Macros command on the Developer tab on the ribbon. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language. A macro is an action or a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. There are several ways to run a macro in Microsoft Excel. To open the Visual Basic Editor, on the Developer tab, click Visual Basic. You've just created a macro in Excel! Visual Basic Editor. Click the command button on the sheet (make sure Design Mode is deselected). Where the text in red is the highlighted.Ĭlose the Visual Basic Editor. On clicking debug it gives the following info.
Everyone else gets no errors when using, however I alone seem to get the Run Time Error 53. My hockey club has a spreadsheet we use for match selection etc which uses Visual Basics to help control and input data. Being able to do the bare minimum to get by.