Visual Basic Support in Mac 2016

Anonymous
2015-07-10T19:25:34+00:00

Hi

Am I missing something? I've been periodically using the Excel 2016 for Mac updates but quickly abandoned them because my sheets rely so heavily on VBA and support for that seemed to be missing. 

I've updatd to the production version today (15.2)...and it still seems to be the case? The Visual Basic editor is..ahem...extremely basic with no menus, right click functions or anything. No ability to insert new modules either. Shortcuts don't work (breakpoint, run etc). 

What's going on? Is this it? Please tell me there's some security setting i need to switch or something...please tell me there's basically no way to create macros enabled spreadsheets in Office for Mac 2016?

Thanks

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Anonymous
2017-11-22T18:12:09+00:00

Hi Roberto,

You're not missing anything. UserForm support is being built right now and should be available in a few weeks. I don't expect userform support to arrive during the holidays, but I hope we have it before spring.

Thanks Gordon for the answer. I will wait after the holidays the microsoft present for christmas. 

I take this opportunty to wish to everyone a my particolary Merry Christmas. 

Roberto

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-02T14:34:18+00:00

    Also experiencing the disappointment that is Excel 2016 for OSX on my home computer after installing it one week ago.  I am actually stunned at how bad VBA is (would add the complaint that there is apparently no Find command for searching for things in code.  Really?).  I wish I could get my money back.

    Based on my experience at work, I highly recommend running Parallels and Office for PC if you need to do VBA development on a Mac.  That is actually a surprisingly good experience.  Parallels makes it possible to make Windows Office the default when an Office document is double clicked on a Mac, so you can be somewhat oblivious to the fact that you are doing things in a Windows application rather than a native Mac app.  I am running Parallels 11 with Windows 7 and Office 2013 (for now at least) on a new Macbook Pro.  I do a lot of VBA development and distribute this code to Window only folks in my company.  I give Parallels 11 a strong endorsement as best of both worlds.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-02T09:17:54+00:00

    You're right. I read reviews that reported that this was what MIcrosoft were doing. I think the reviewers didn't test the product, certainly not the VB Editor.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-01T23:56:14+00:00

    Great story Phil, it makes for a really interesting alternative to reality.

    Got any more?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-01T23:51:43+00:00

    lol - Microsoft told you no such thing.

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