Windows 7: Excel 2010 Macros Will Not Run On A New Machine

Am running Windows 7 and Office 2010.

Several years ago I wrote four macros to perform operations in Excel 2010. Thet we to be placed in Personal.XLS so they would be available on all worksheets. I put links to them in the Quick Access bar. Twice I have tried to use those macros on different machines by putting the Personal.XLS from the first machine on to the new machines. They will not run from the either new machine's Quick Access bar but will run just fine from View/Macros/Run on each of the new machines. I get a message saying "Cannot run the macro "C:\Users\Main\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTARTPERSONAL.XLS'!Sheet_Protection'. The macro may not be available in this workbook or all macros may be disabled."

The Trust Center Macro Settings has Enable all Macros checked.

The only way I have been able to use the Quick Launch Bar to run these macros is to delete and reinstall each of them. Then they work fine.



The only clue to what the problem may be is the User Name on each new machine is different.

Will someone please help me?

Thank you.

Does C:\Users\Main\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTARTPERSONAL.XLS exist? check exact location and name.
I think the name should be C:\Users\Main\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSONAL.XLS instead. Are you logged on as user Main?

Thank you

Of course! My mistake. I left the '\' out. It does exist in that location and the macros in it work when, as I said, they are launched from View\Macros\Run but not from the Quick Access bar.

I really appreciate your reply for this has bugged me a while.

Thanks again.

launch visual basic edit (in developer tab) and check if your code is in a sheet or module contained in the file you are working with

Thank you again.

My bad again!

The macros are in a module in Personal.xls.

BUT you had the answer in your first reply and ir went right over my head. You asked if I was logged in as MAIN. No I wasn't. I was logged in under another name. No wonder the buttons didn't work!

I created a user MAIN, logged into that name and things went perfectly. I can live with having to redo the buttons for the macros involved for now.

Thanks again for your help.

LOL...
Do you want to enable the macros for ALL users on that machine? If so put personal.xls in folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 14\XLStart\ instead. Of course you have to modify Quick Access bar again. But only once!

That's to easy!

Thanks.

So that's what you want? Works great?