Opening files in Excel VBA on a mac
The following code provides solutions to most of these problems, opening three text files using tableQueries based on the name of one of the files that is found using a find file dialog box. Some of these ideas were incorporated into Phil Brady’s notes on porting a VBA application to a MAC
Browser specific fileopen dialog box
The following is the Windows version of the code for opening a dialog box for selecting a file
And this is for macs:
The fileopen dialog box on a mac is best implemented with applescript. This script catches errors within the Apple script and returns the error number as text (which always begins with a ‘-‘) allowing the calling code to decide what to do. This catches ‘errors’ such as clicking the cancel button and opening with a directory that does not exist. I was not able to identify detailed error info if I caught the error in the VBA.
Enabling file access on Excel 2016 for macs
In the 2016+ versions of Excel, VBA operates in a sandbox which means that explicit permission has to be granted if any files are to be opened. This is not required if the file has been identified with a appleScript ‘fileopen dialog box. For other files this is granted using the GrantAccessToMultipleFiles method. This is wrapped in a method because if it is encountered in code prior to Excel 2016, or on a mac then it throws an untrappable error
Getting the directory from a full path
This gets the directory from a full path
Browsing for a filename
This the function called by the ‘Browse’ button, which calls the OS specific browse subroutine and handles the responses for the mac filedialog, and then goes into common code to see whether the returned value should be placed in the spreadsheet and the query tables loaded using Load_Click
Loading queryTables
This method is either called as part of the processing when ‘Browse’ is clicked, or can be called independently to refresh the files if the names have not changed. It makes use of three queryTables that have already been placed in the appropriate positions in the spreadsheets. The ‘Browse’ button selects the filename which ends _results.txt which is associated with the first queryTable. The other two filenames are derived from the _results.txt filenames Because they have not been explicietly selected by the user the mac security requires that the user confirms that it is OK to load them.
On a mac the code has to deal with the fact that the mac fileOpen dialog box uses path variables with a ‘:’ separator bu the grant access function uses a ‘/’ separator and must start with ‘/User. ‘
Как открыть vba на mac
I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out, but I just can’t seem to. I hope you have the patience to read my problems and help me fix them.
I am taking a Visual Basic course online for my school. Since our school has no PC and just Macs, I am running into a few issues. Our teacher wants us to use Visual Studio, which I have downloaded for Mac.
We were told to create a project using Visual Basic. I followed the instructor and attempted to do what he did.
I open Visual Studio, create a new project, select the code to be VB (not C# or anything else) and prepare to start coding. I start to type and I am not able to as a pop up box says «No completions found».
All I want to do is just make my code in a .vb file (which is the format the teacher wants. will they accept a vb.NET file, idk what that is) and be able to run it in Visual Studio.
But nothing is working out for me. All the tutorials online show how to create projects in Mac and run them, but for C#. I did research and it said to download Mono, and I did, but I don’t know what to do with it.
If anyone can please help, I will be fulfilled with tremendous gratitude. Thank you.
MS Excel 2011 for Mac: Open the Visual Basic Editor
This Excel tutorial explains how to open the Visual Basic Editor in Excel 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).
See solution in other versions of Excel :
You can access the VBA environment in Excel 2011 for Mac by opening the Visual Basic editor.
First, be sure that the Developer tab is visible in the toolbar in Excel.
The Developer tab is the toolbar that has the buttons to open the VBA editor and create Form Controls like buttons, checkboxes, etc.
To display the Developer tab, click on Preferences under the Excel menu at the top of the screen.
When the Excel Preferences window appears, click on the Ribbon icon in the Sharing and Privacy section.
In the Customize section, check Developer in the list of tabs to show. Then click on the OK button.
Select the Developer tab from the toolbar at the top of the screen. Then click on the Editor option in the Visual Basic group.
Now the Microsoft Visual Basic editor should appear and you can view your VBA code.
Можно ли программировать VBA на маке?
Всем доброго дня. В вузе программируем на VBA. Есть ли смысл кодить VBA на МасОs? Мой препод сказал, что это геморно: мол покупайте винду ибо на маке у вас ничего не получиться. Но найдя с десяток видосов на ютубе, как индусы спокойно кодят вба на маках, стал сомневаться в профессиональности своего препода. Может его завербовал БиллГейтс хм.
Кстати для чего вообще нужен VBA? Неужели функционала экселя и ворда не хватает и нужно дополнительно программировать?
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Если Вы задаетесь такими вопросами, значит он Вам еще не нужен =)
В формулах MS Excel’я нет циклов, но порой они нужны, пять же если Вы выполняете однотипные действия, например нужно текст из нескольких ячеек собрать в одну строку и сделать это на большой выборке, когда идут сложные условия и их много, когда требуются сложные сортировки данных, в общем когда у Вас большие портянки текста и цифр и с этим нужно что-то делать, как то структурировать и приводить разношерстный текст к единому стандарту, да и еще потребуется интерфейс. тогда приходит на помощь VBA, например на нем можно сделать всплывающее-окно календарик — для вставки даты в ячейку, навигатор по листам книги, запись данных в Word/Excel/Txt данных или наоборот считывание в автоматическом режиме, работа с базами данных, динамическое построение графиков при смене строки курсором и т.д. и т.п.
VBA это мини-автоматизация. Вот приходят к Вам постоянно одни и те же данные, Вам с ними что-то нужно сделать, а потом результат отправить почтой. VBA это позволяет сделать. Нажал на кнопку и получил результат, а иначе придется делать вручную. Макросы это просто программа которая делает все то же что и ты, но по заранее известному шаблону и за тебя. Неужели ты думаешь что это не нужно и глупо?