Office 2011 for Mac is full of useful features, including the autorecovery tool in Excel. Although crashes in Excel for Mac 2011 are extremely rare, it doesn’t hurt to make sure Excel 2011 is backing up your changes as you work. The following sections show you what to do to ensure Excel is making backups and how to retrieve the backup if you need to.
Setting up AutoRecover in Excel for Mac 2011
I am creating an Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook for both Windows & Mac. One platform on the Mac I want it to run on is Excel 2011. My workbook uses a custom Ribbon tab. Sometimes, depending on what the user does, I want the text of the ribbon buttons to change. So I have code that does this. I know that a custom Ribbon tab is not possible in. PivotTables in Excel 2011 are in many ways like those in Excel 2010, but the Mac version does not support all of the high-end features—including Slicers.
Take a moment to make sure your preferences automatically save an emergency backup file of your work. Before you do that, remember that AutoRecover is not a substitute for saving your files often! To set up AutoRecover, follow these steps:
Choose Excel→Preferences from the menu bar.
In the Sharing and Privacy section, select Save.
Select the Save AutoRecover Information After This Number of Minutes check box.
Enter the number of minutes that you want between AutoRecover file saves, or use the increase/decrease control.
Click OK.
After you turn on AutoRecover, Excel saves your work at the specified interval so that you can recover in the event that the system or Excel crashes.
Retrieving an AutoRecover file in Excel for Mac 2011
If your computer or Excel crashes, you can recover your work up to the most recent AutoRecover save, but only if you turned on AutoRecover saves. Take these steps to restore any workbooks that were open at the time of the crash:
Click the Excel Dock icon.
Excel presents any documents that you’re working on that have been saved at least once. Recovered documents have (Recovered) in the title bar.
To keep the recovered version, choose File→Save As.
The Save As dialog appears. Take one of the following actions:
To replace the existing file with the recovered version:Navigate to the file or use Spotlight to locate the existing file. Then, click the filename to change the recovered file’s name to the existing filename. Click Save to overwrite the existing file.
To save the recovered file without overwriting the original: Select a location to save the recovered file and enter a name for the file in the text box. Then click Save.
To discard a recovered workbook, click the red Close button to close the workbook. When prompted, don’t save changes.
To permanently remove AutoRecover files from your computer, follow these steps:
Quit all open Office applications.
In Finder, press Command-F.
Enter AutoRecover in the text box.
Select all AutoRecover files.
Drag the files to the Trash.
Empty the Trash.
This Excel tutorial explains the VBA debugging environment in Excel 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).
Vba Excel 2011 Mac Reference
See solution in other versions of Excel:
Vba In Excel For Mac 2011 Free
What is VBA's Debugging Environment?
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In Excel 2011, VBA's debugging environment allows the programmer to momentarily suspend the execution of VBA code so that the following debug tasks can be done:
Check the value of a variable in its current state.
Enter VBA code in the Immediate window to view the results.
Execute each line of code one at a time.
Continue execution of the code.
Halt execution of the code.
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These are just some of the tasks that you might perform in VBA's debugging environment.