personal macro workbook must stay open for recording

[Matthew Dodds]

Hi All,

If I do alt-TMR in excel to record a macro, and opt to store the macro
in personal.xls, I get a nice 'microsoft excel' OKonly popup telling me
'personal macro workbook in the startup folder must stay open for
recording'. Taking the only choice available (OKonly) gives me another
OKonly popup telling me 'Unable to record'.

So I'm currently resorting to storing recorded macros ion the current
workbook instead, which is inconvenient.

If anyone else has seen this message before and know why it appears
and, more important, how to get personal.xls working normally, then
please respond.

Thanks

Mat

 

[Martin Fishlock]

It may be that you do not have write access to the file or the directory
where the personal.xls file is or should be located.

Is this a networked installation or a local installation?

Also try unhiding the personal.xls workbook and seeing where it is.

-- Martin

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe personal.xls was disabled...

xl2002+ has the abililty to quarantine what it thinks are bad workbooks.

They can keep track of them so that it doesn't even try to open them.

If you look under Help|About MS Excel, you'll see a button called: "Disabled
Items...".

Check under there to see if it's marked not to open. You can enable it there,
too.

If the workbook is really bad, you may want to delete that copy and put a copy
of your backup version into your XLStart folder.

 

[Matthew Dodds]

Dave Peterson, thanks: personal.xls was indeed disabled.OEM