Excel for Mac
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Bring VBA on Excel for Mac to parity with Excel for Windows
Bring VBA on Excel for Mac to parity with Excel for Windows.
Currently, there are too many missing VBA elements missing. It is a major problem for those of us with mixed environments. Many things that worked under Excel 2011 no longer work in 2016.Why is the not being addressed?
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Excel for Mac 2016 does not open xlsm files from Excel for Windows !
Excel for Mac version 16.15 does not open xlsm files from Excel for Windows !
Excel has a very serious error:
Do not open the xlsm files maked with Excel for Windows, please correct it... !!!
I have tried it with all my previous excel macros files and in all it sends me a message of ERROR, when accepting that, Excel proceeds to repair it deletes all the macros that you have programmed in VBA !!!What kind of error is that ???
PLEASE CORRECT THAT HORROR !!!! ...
The exact message is the following:
Notice: We have found a…
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Listen to your customers
There are several lines of discussion on the problems faced by people using Office 2016 & 2019 for Mac relating to VBA macro programming which have been ignored for a considerable time (at least 4 years). Microsoft need to do something about this. No relative ref control, userforms and dataforms are all missing and make the software unusable for serious work.
Other software companies will fill this gap if you don’t!
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Easy or even just available data forms for data input on Office 2019
We just need the basic data forms available to us! UGH it's ridiculous not to have that available and even readily available
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Allow tool tips for buttons embedded in a sheet that run macros
This functionality (adding a tool tip) works if an embedded button operates a hyperlink but not if it activates a macro
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Enable Macros permanently for a given file
Make my response on whether I want macros enabled on any given file part of the saved details with the file.
I know it has macros - I wrote it and yes I want them enabled - always - every time I open this file. Ask me for the next file and remember my response for that one also.1 vote -
Mouse cursor disappears after running a macro in Excel for Mac version 16.15
Need to fix a bug with mac Excel. After running a macro, the mouse cursor disappears. It reappears after typing in another program and coming back to Excel. This fix works sometimes but not all. This gets frustrating. The same macro runs fine in Windows Excel.
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Fix ExportAsFixedFormat method
ExportAsFixedFormat method produces a "Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error" when trying to save (export) a pdf to a user folder (/Users/user/Documents for example)
As I see it only works if one saves to the sandbox path of Office (Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office), which is quite uncomfortable to work with.
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Need a way to enter the static date and time on the iPad in excel
Definitely need a way to enter the static date and time on the iPad in excel. There is no command or control button on the iPad keyboard
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No forms in VBA what do people do now.
It was Microsoft who developed the UserForm capability in VBA for Excel and now it is gone - what do people do now.
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Screen Updating in VBA
It would be great if, as for the Windows version, the Mac version of Excel enables Screen Updating when running a VBA macro. Currently, starting a macro runs but there is no indication whether the application is indeed calculating or simply frozen. adding the command Application.ScreenUpdating = TRUE has no effect
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Macro recorder should capture print commands (it use to) a selected range to be printed
print a selected range to be printed
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fuzzy lookup for Mac
Fuzzy lookup for Mac
It would be great to have fuzzy lookup add-in for Mac.
140 votesThanks for all your comments and votes supporting this suggestion. It would be very helpful if you would add more information about how you’d like to use fuzzy lookup in Excel.
Thanks – Steve K [MS Excel]
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Add the same items in the developer bar as in windows. Many VBA commands are missing, such as insert form
add the same items in the developer bar as in windows. Many VBA commands are missing, such as insert form
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Fix VBA recording issue
Something I came across - which I suspect has been documents elsewhere but I can't readily see it so here goes.
When recording a macro in excel for mac 2016 for some reason the action of opening a file does not get recorded. The recorder literally doesn't register that you have opened the file. (Its a very useful step to provide the full syntax for the file path of the relevant file).
However when you close the file - that step is recorded as ActiveWorkbook.Close.
It took me a while to work out that the syntax from 2011 to 2016…
78 votesThanks for reporting this issue, we are planning to address it, but in the meantime, you can do this with a command such as the following:
Application.Workbooks.Open “/Users/user_name/Downloads/MyWorkbook.xlsx”
Steve K [MS Excel]
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Quick Analysis for Mac
Please include the Quick Analysis feature for the Mac version of Excel.
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Allow attaching symbols to quick-access toolbar buttons (as is the case in Excel for Windows)
For many years I had a customized set of buttons in the toolbar at the top of Excel spreadsheets. Some of these were standardized commands (splitting the worksheet); others were macros I had created. These sped up my work significantly. I had hoped to use the Quick Access Toolbar in Excel for Mac 2016 to recreate the most important of these. I can do this, but they all have the same button symbol!! Could you allow me to replace the buttons with symbols, as I could in Excel for Mac 2011 and apparently could if I used Excel 2016 for…
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I have Excel 365 for Mac. I want to have a KEYBOARD SHORTCUT for FIND & REPlACE! I sorely miss the one I used on Excel 2011.
I have Excel 365 for Mac. I want to have a KEYBOARD SHORTCUT for FIND & REPLACE! I sorely miss the one I used on Excel 2011.
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vba ODBC connection
ActiveWorkbook.Connections("ConnectionName").ODBCConnection is broken. Please fix this single command. It is a blocking issue. All other ODBC commands are working as expected. Please fix this one so everything is working. Thanks
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Enable VBA Support for creating and editing UserForms (not the Data Form)
In previous versions of Mac Excel you could create a Form/Dialog using VBA (called a VBA UserForm). In Mac Excel 2016, you can no longer do this. Please bring that functionality back. Note that this is different than the "Form" option on the Data menu. There's a separate suggestion on UserVoice for that.
(March-2018: MS updated the Title and Description to avoid confusion with the Data Form request)
648 votesThanks for the suggestion and for the support of this feature. If you meant to vote for the Data Form, which is different than VBA UserForms, please change your vote to that suggestion instead. From reading the comments on this one, it seems that some clarification was needed.
I updated the title and description for this one and we’ll continue to monitor for comments and votes.
Here’s the link to the Data Form suggestion – https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304933-excel-for-mac/suggestions/17930662-restore-data-form-functionality
Steve K [MS Excel]
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