AppleScriptTask in Mac Office 2016 or higher. In Office 2011 for the Mac there are many problems with the built-in VBA commands. For Example Dir, Kill, GetOpenFilename, GetSaveAsFileName and many others. F or example, in Office 2011 file names in VBA are limited to a maximum of 32 characters including the extension. If the file name is longer. Excel 2016 for Mac review: Spreadsheet app can do the job—as long as you don't rely on macros Microsoft's spreadsheet app is more friendly to general Mac users, but less friendly to power users. Below you can find example VBA code to save as PDF in Mac Excel 2016. Microsoft fixed a few bugs but there are still a lot of bugs to fix, so I will update the code when needed. The code will create a folder in the Office folder to save the PDF files in, read the info on this page why I use a folder in that location. Working with Files and Folders (Mac) Problems with Apple's sandbox requirements and Mac Office 2016 and up with VBA code. Get path of Special folder. Check if File or Directory Exists. Make Directory if it not exist. Copy Folder in Microsoft Office for the Mac with VBA. Use VBA Kill to delete files. Use VBA to Delete all files in folder. Follow these steps to load the Analysis ToolPak in Excel 2016 for Mac: Click the Tools menu, and then click Excel Add-ins. In the Add-Ins available box, select the.
Select files on a Mac (GetOpenFilename)
In Windows we can use for example GetOpenFilename to select files and do what we want with the path results, you can use filefilter to only display the files you want and use MultiSelect to select more then one file. Also it is possible with ChDrive and ChDir to set the folder that is selected when GetOpenFilename opens, see a example on the bottom of this page for Excel for Windows.
But on a Mac the filefilter is not working and it is not possible to select more then one file. Also ChDir is not working like in Windows to set the folder that will open with GetOpenFilename. But we can use a combination of VBA and Applescript, see example below that only let you select xlsx files and you can set the start folder.
Important : The file location can be very important in Mac Excel 2016, read : Problems with Apple's sandbox requirements in Mac Office 2016 and higher with VBA code
Example for Mac Excel 2011 and 2016 and higher
Note : Do not forget to copy the bIsBookOpen function below the macro.
Excel For Mac
You can run the macro below without changing it, it opens the Desktop in the file select dialog and you can only select one xlsx file now, see the code how to change this.
Note : If you got problems with the code please report it to me so i can fix it.
Other file formats are :
In the macro you see this code line that say which file format you can select (xlsx).
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet'}'
If you want more then one format you can use this to be able to also select xls files.
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet','com.microsoft.Excel.xls'}'
This is a list of a few formats that you can use : Yandex браузер for mac.
xls : com.microsoft.Excel.xls
xlsx : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet
xlsm : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet.macroenabled
xlsb : com.microsoft.Excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled
csv : public.comma-separated-values-text
doc : com.microsoft.word.doc
docx : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document
docm : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document.macroenabled
ppt : com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
pptx : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation
pptm : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation.macroenabled
Vba Excel 2016 Mac Userform
txt : public.plain-text
pdf : com.adobe.pdf
jpg : public.jpeg
png : public.png
In the macro you see this code line that say which file format you can select (xlsx).
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet'}'
If you want more then one format you can use this to be able to also select xls files.
FileFormat = '{'org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet','com.microsoft.Excel.xls'}'
This is a list of a few formats that you can use : Yandex браузер for mac.
xls : com.microsoft.Excel.xls
xlsx : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet
xlsm : org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet.macroenabled
xlsb : com.microsoft.Excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled
csv : public.comma-separated-values-text
doc : com.microsoft.word.doc
docx : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document
docm : org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.document.macroenabled
ppt : com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt
pptx : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation
pptm : org.openxmlformats.presentationml.presentation.macroenabled
Vba Excel 2016 Mac Userform
txt : public.plain-text
pdf : com.adobe.pdf
jpg : public.jpeg
png : public.png
QIF : com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text
htm : public.html
If you need to know another format send me a mail and I try to help you.
Example for Excel for Windows
Note: The macro example for Windows and Mac are both using this function to test if the file is open.
Vba Excel For Mac 2016 Version
In Windows you can use filefilter to only display the files you want and use MultiSelect to select more then one file. Also it is possible with ChDrive and ChDir to set the folder that is selected when GetOpenFilename opens, see basic Windows example below :
Vba Excel For Mac 2016 Crack
When you want to add more filters you can use this in the Windows macro to filter on xls and csv files
