Visual Basic for Applications trying to load

[John Marr]

I have had office 2004 for a while now. Everything has been going great until
a few weeks ago when I opened word and was given a warning box that
visual basic for applications was not loading. I have never installed visual
basic since I do not need it, so I figure that some setting must be
misconfigured and word is looking for visual basic. This occurred as I was
installing some freeware/shareware programs (the exact names I do not
recall.)

I have been looking on microsoft's support site and on google to try to find
where this option could be. I can only find info for word xp. Can anyone let
me know how I can fix this?

I spoke to a friend who had the same problem. When I asked him if I should
uninstall office and reinstall it, he said he did that and the same error
occurs. I am rather new to the mac, so having used windows I would say
something needed to be removed from my registry, but does a mac even
have something like this? My friend fixed his system by
formatting and reinstalling Mac OS and everything worked again. I want to
try to avoid this, so I am asking for some help. Anyone have any
suggestions?

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Are you now getting this message every time you launch Word, or did you just
get it the once? Is it causing problems, or just really annoying?

Visual Basic for Applications was part of the default install--did you
specifically *not* install it?

Are these freeware programs add-ins for Word? If so, then very possibly the
freeware was looking for VBA and couldn't find it. You could do a custom
install from the CD of just VBA (maybe under Office Tools). Did you remove
the programs? You should probably look in your Startup Folder to see if
anything there might be calling for VBA (/Applications/Microsoft Office (X
or 2004)/Office/Startup/Word).

Not sure what the registry equivalent on the Mac is, and it's not in the
windows to Mac glossary in Mac Help.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi John:

You may not need Visual Basic, but Word does. VBA is used internally by
Word to do a series of things in the user interface.

However, the usual cause of that indication is that you have picked up a PC
virus that is trying to load the PC version of VBA and failing.

Get a good virus checker (one whose manufacturer guarantees it will find
"ALL" viruses, not just the ones prevalent on a Mac) and let it do a
thorough scan.

If you do need to do a Remove and Reinstall, click here:
file:///Applications/Microsoft%20Office%202004/Additional%20Tools/Remove%20O
ffice/Remove%20Office%20Read%20Me.html

The file and application to remove Office completely should already be on
your hard disk. If it isn't, it's on your CD.

Cheers

I have had office 2004 for a while now. Everything has been going great until
a few weeks ago when I opened word and was given a warning box that
visual basic for applications was not loading. I have never installed visual
basic since I do not need it, so I figure that some setting must be
misconfigured and word is looking for visual basic. This occurred as I was
installing some freeware/shareware programs (the exact names I do not
recall.)

I have been looking on microsoft's support site and on google to try to find
where this option could be. I can only find info for word xp. Can anyone let
me know how I can fix this?

I spoke to a friend who had the same problem. When I asked him if I should
uninstall office and reinstall it, he said he did that and the same error
occurs. I am rather new to the mac, so having used windows I would say
something needed to be removed from my registry, but does a mac even
have something like this? My friend fixed his system by
formatting and reinstalling Mac OS and everything worked again. I want to
try to avoid this, so I am asking for some help. Anyone have any
suggestions?

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