Excel 2016 for Mac has to be sandboxed to support apples new standards. In order to open files outside of the sandbox (which using a file from the internet would be) you have to run an apple script in order to download and open the file. Excel file repair tool for mac. Here is a snippet from the MS page linked above.

/ Never Do Tedious Worksheet Tasks Again With Excel VBA Jun 17 2014 Never Do Tedious Worksheet Tasks Again With Excel VBA •, •,,,,,, • The moment you discover VBA in Excel, you will never want to do another formatting or data manipulation task in Excel. When we first discovered how to use VBA, it was like getting fed ground beef after you tasted filet mignon: you just can’t go back once you have tasted heaven. Many people think VBA is meant for programmers, and we can tell you that you don’t need to be a programmer to learn how to “code” in VBA. We are going to show actual VBA code in this post for one of the most common tasks we’ve found for using VBA: cycling through worksheets. What you will feel like after learning the quick VBA tip in this post. Is a programming language that allows you to do things in Microsoft applications like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint beyond the traditional user interface. You probably know where all the menus and buttons are in Excel, and hopefully you know keyboard shortcuts to get your job done even faster in Excel. There are times when you need to do repetitive, mundane, and frankly boring tasks in Excel like coloring a cell or doing the SUM() formula on some numbers.

If you are doing the same tasks every single day to the same worksheets, you are probably a good candidate to implement VBA to save you from doing these repetitive tasks. You may have heard of macros, which are the building blocks in VBA. Macros are step-by-step procedures written in Visual Basic that let you automate repetitive tasks.

In order to get started with VBA, understanding the differences between objects, properties, and methods is important. A very basic example (pardon the pun) is a basketball.

The basketball is our object. A property of the basketball, our object, could be its colors.

The color can be black, white, but is typically orange. In terms of the basketball’s methods, these are actions the ball can take. For instance, the ball can bounce, roll, or maybe even pop. These are all different methods the object can do. The Microsoft Developer Network actually has a pretty good primer on. While that’s fun and dandy to read when you’re bored, we are all about doing and experimenting so let’s get right into the VBA code for helping you automate tasks you would do on many worksheets. Cycle Through Worksheets VBA Code Here is the bare bones code for quickly cycling through the worksheets in your workbook to apply some sort of operation on the cells in a given worksheet.

Sheets ( 1 ). Select It’s super simple and efficient. Line 9 is where you would enter in all the operations you would like to do on all the worksheets in your file. How does this simple script work? We first need to figure out how many worksheets there are in your workbook, so we have a variable called numsheet that stores the number of worksheets in your file. Application.Sheets is the object we are working on which essentially refers to the worksheets in your Excel file. Count is the method that we are applying to this object; the number returned is simply the number of worksheets.

In order to cycle through all the worksheets, we have to do a FOR/NEXT loop. This is where the For y = 1 To numsheet comes into play. The first time the loop runs, the variable y will equal 1. Therefore, Sheets(y).Select will be Sheets(1).Select the first time the loop runs. Sheets is the object and Select is the method we are applying to the Sheets object (which basically selects the current worksheet in your file).

For example, use that shortcut and type in 'School play 7pm on Thursday' to turn it into an event with 'School play' as the name of the event and the date and time filled in. Alerts show up in the iOS or OS X Today screens and notification bars. If the calendar is open, you can create a quick event with the Command + N keyboard shortcut on the Mac. Thanks, Calendar! One calendar for mac.

Range(“A1”).Select moves the cursor to cell A1 in each of your worksheets so that after you’re done applying operations to your worksheet, you’ll automatically be in cell A1 when you go back to that worksheet. Once the FOR/NEXT loop reaches the total number of worksheets in your file, it exits the loop and selects the first sheet ( Sheets(1).Select) in case you have a lot of sheets in your file and want to be back in the first worksheet in your file. Applying This Code To A Real File Let’s say you have an Excel report where you need to make sure the first row is always highlighted yellow and bold since all your column headings are in the first row and you want your audience to notice those headings. Your Excel file has 10 worksheets that all have the same column headings. Of course, you could individually go to each worksheet and highlight the first row yellow and make the font bold, but this is the perfect task for our worksheet cycler code! So how do we make this: Into this: You can download the to play around yourself, but here are the steps we would take to implement this code into a macro.