Office 2011 - Can't Find Visual Basic for Applications Error

I have the same problem, but have no odd characters in my hard disc name.

I am pteey annoyed as I bought Office 2011 pre-loaded on my new Macbook, but it did not have the VBA (which is why I wanted Offfcie rather than the free OpenOffice in the first place).

VBA is supposedly on the Office distrbution CD, so I went through the loop of re-installing Office 2011 with the VBA option ticked. No VBA apperared. After 3 times trying the install, still no VBA. The macbook has the VBA framework file installed in the applications folder, but the clicking the editor tab in the developer tab of Excel just brings up an error massage sayng VBA is not installed.

Not clear where to go from here. Try the Genious Bar at the local mac store?

Have office 2011. Can run VBA script from editor but can't run from command buttons. How do I activate command buttons?

I run Office 2011 but don't experiment as much as you folks do but I do use http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/ if I have a problem with the suite.

Hi,

My hard drive name included my first name "François". When I changed it to "Francois", VBA worked immediatly, with no need for reinstall anything.

Just amazing and crazy!

It's unbelievable...I have been trying for months to fix this problem, in several sites and forums, and your answer was the best! My HD also included a "ç" on its name... I just removed it and everything works fine now! Thanks a lot for the tip!

Thanks Holger_S, your suggestion fixed the problem! My hard drive had the accented é and the æ in the name, so I renamed it without accent marks as you said and it works perfectly now.

I wasn't able to open .XLSM files. My hard disk name had space. I removed the space and restarted excel 2011. It can open macro files now. Thanks very much for the suggestion.

Delete this file:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Startup/Word/linkCreation.dotm

Removing this file solved it. Thanks