Macro button under customized ribbon tab tries to open old Excel file

Question

I created a custom ribbon tab on my Excel like Excel_app_v1.xlsm, and a button under this ribbon tab is connected to a macro. So when I click this button, the m

Answer 1

The clue to fixing this quickly was posted below by roncruiser, with one slight twist.

Everyone on the web seems to feel that PERSONAL.XLSB is the key here — nope. In fact, playing with that file only confounded me for even longer. Here's what I did instead:

1. Right click the Ribbon and select Customize The Ribbon;
2. Navigate to the offending macros that you've installed with buttons;
3. Find and click on Import/Export;
4. Export your custom buttons (the macros will go right along just fine);

5. Open that resulting file, and edit out the offending references to the other file that's causing you so much grief — example:

   <mso:button idQ="x1:HideRows_0_EA10D6" label="HideRows" imageMso="_3DPerspectiveDecrease" onAction="!HideRows" visible="true"/>
   

   I took out everything after idQ-"x1... up to the actual name of the macro. I also took out the same external reference found in onAction="... Take everything up to the bang mark.

   Save this under whatever name you wish, but with the same extension (for my setup, it was called ExportedCustomizations.exportedUI (yes, that long an extension));

6. Repeat the first few steps here, but this time import your edited file.

7. Voila, all is golden.

No messing around with wiping out existing work and starting all over. Worked a charm for me, so a big tip o' The Hat to roncruiser for the clue.

Answer 2

Just to confirm what sumgain have write above.

It works perfectly just do as he said : remove the part after the "x1:" that refers to a specific workbook until the begining of the maccro's name. example : When you export your custom ribbon with the maccro attached to it it will be write like below : idQ="x1:C:_FolderName_Filename.xlsm_Fill_Formulas_Cells"

THen you remove the part mentionned and it will become like that :

idQ="x1:Fill_Formulas_Cells"

Same for onAction keep only the Maccro Name Then it will works perfectly as long as you the maccro's name in the workbook stay consistent if you modified the Macros name then you have to modified it in the exportedUI file.

Then when you will reload the new file you can check in the Excel Options customize ribbon on the customize button if you put the pointer on you will see "Maccro: Name of your maccro"

And not the path of the file the maccro was from.

No need to use custom UI editor or any other things such as personnal maccro at least for that and if you are not bother to have custom ribbon in all of your woorkbook.

As well it is obvious but still good to remind it, you need to have the maccro in the workbook this procedure is just there to call the maccro that are associate to the workbook, it doesn't contain the code of the maccro.

Cheers Romain

Answer 3

Same exact thing happened to me. There's a way to get around this.

By default, when you create a macro in Excel and run that macro through a custom ribbon button, that ribbon button macro works only in the workbook that contains it.

To get around this and have the button macros work in all workbooks, you'll need to create a Personal Macro Workbook. Then any macros that you store in your personal workbook on a computer become available to you in any workbook whenever you start Excel on that same computer.

Create a Personal Macro Workbook

To get the same ribbon button macros to work on another computer, you'll need to copy the Personal Macro Workbook to another computer and store it in the XLSTART folder. The link above has all the information you'll need.

Note: Delete the old ribbon button macros. Make sure you create new ribbon button macros that reference the macros from your Personal Macro Workbook.