Thanks for your video above. I’m contemplating moving from PC to Mac, and trying (without much success) to understand how complete the VBA implementation is in Mac Office 2016. I recently tested an xlsm file I wrote in PC Excel 2007 on a friend’s Mac Office 2016, and it choked on trying to create a Word file from within Excel.
Microsoft is throwing developers working with mixed PC and Mac environments a curveball with the long-awaited release of Office for Macintosh 2008.
Microsoft has pressed ahead with delivering a suite that drops support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), overcoming long-running concerns among the grassroots.
The macro language subset of Visual Basic has been the bread and butter architecture for those tasked with building advanced formatting in Microsoft’s signature Excel and Word suites.
Mar 30, 2021 Data scraping is the technique that helps in the extraction of desired information from a HTML web page to a local file present in your local machine. Normally, a local file cou Web Scraping with VBA. I'd like to automate Outlook 2016 on Mac. The task I'd like to automate is basically the following: search inbox for mails from the previous week having a specific pattern in the title; prepare a new mail which content is the consolidated content of all the mails found in the previous step. For those of you who rely on macro’s in the Office suite of applications, news from the Microsoft BU released today, mentions that VBA support will be added back in when the next version of Office for Mac is released. There is no mention of a date, so it could.
While VBA is still supported in Office for the PC the lack of an equivalent in the latest Mac version will make it harder for enterprises to maintain compatibility between Mac and PC Office applications, and make the job of developing for separate platforms using the same IT staff just that little bit harder.
Microsoft announced last July it would no longer license VBA and encouraged application development using Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) or Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Microsoft has also published advice to developers wishing to make the transition.
Erik Schweibert, software design lead at Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU), disclosed Microsoft's reasons for abandoning VBA back in August 2006. Despite what appears to be a rational analysis from Microsoft, the move prompted widespread protests from both users and developers.
Microsoft argued that the technical problems involved in porting Visual Basic at the same time as revamping Mac Office to work on Apple's Intel platform would have meant further delays. At the same time, Microsoft has included enhanced support for AppleScript in Mac Office 2008, which can be used as an alternative to VBA for many tasks.
But the problem of incompatibility with Mac users remains. Enterprises could, of course, use OpenOffice or NeoOffice and keep compatible with Office 2007. Sun Microsystems and Novell have collaborated on building VBA interoperability for OpenOffice.
The last thing Microsoft wants, though, is for its lucrative Office for Mac market to migrate to OpenOffice. It will be telling, therefore, to see how far Microsoft deals with the VBA incompatibility problems during the next year.®
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This story has been updated. We wrongly reported Microsoft is stopping support for VBA in Office. Thanks to Microsoft and readers who contacted us to point out our mistake. Apologies for any misunderstanding.
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I have a folder with 25 different PDFs that have values of different investments. The PDFs can be grouped into 4 different layouts, meaning 10 are organized the same way but with information specific to that PDF, 9 others organized the same way but with info specific to that PDF, and so on and so forth.
Each PDF has a specific datapoint I am trying to scrape and use to populate a summary excel sheet that would show the value of each of the 25 investments. To add to the complexity, I have to design the summary sheet to be able to reference all the PDFs as needed so I can easily update the summary values when new PDFs are added to the folder.
I've tried exporting the PDFs to Excel in Adobe, but that doesn't seem easily repeatable/efficient since I have 25 PDFs. I also tried Power Query, but I am still learning it so I don't think I was going in the right direction.
Do you suggest VBA, PQ, or something else to automate this?
Thanks in advance!