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
    2017-09-26T22:27:15+00:00

    This answer cleared up some confusion.  But I would still like to see the update to Excel Mac VBA to have menus and keyboard shortcuts, like the prior versions.  It appears to be impossible to debug the code.  And old code that has run effectively on both platforms for years is getting glitchy.

    I hope that these things can be straightened out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-19T10:54:27+00:00

    Good news !!!

    Excel for Mac V15.40 has an improved VBA editor.

    Here what the what's new section says

    mproved Visual Basic Editor

    Create and edit macros in the Visual Basic Editor using IntelliSense, VBA menus and toolbars, debug tools, an object browser and more.

    Hope that helps

    Cheers

    JC

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-19T12:30:09+00:00

    Many thanks for that

    BA31

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-19T14:54:21+00:00

    The fast builds have even better support/reimplementation of VBA, but of course there can and are bugs that pop up that can make the fast builds difficult to use.  Good news is that the team squashes most of the bugs pretty quickly.

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