Macros refuse to run for me in Excel 2007 on Windows Server 2003. The macro and visual basic icons on the ribbon are grayed out. If I open a workbook with a macro, I get the warning: ‘ This workbook has lost its VBA project, ActiveX controls and any other programmability-related features.’ If I try to make a new excel template in VSTO (Excel is closed at the time), I get the error: ‘Programmatic access to the Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications project system could not be enabled. . .’
I checked that VBA was installed (originally it wasn’t, I added it via office setup). I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling office and VBA, no dice. I made a macro-enabled workbook. I set the workbook’s location to trusted. I configured all of the security settings available under Excel Options/Trust Center to allow-everything-no-prompts. I set ‘Enable all macros’ and ‘Trust access to the VBA object model’. I downloaded the group policy admin templates and verified none of this is being set via group policy.
That’s everything I can find in Google to try, but clearly there is another place that VBA can be turned off. Where else can I look?
Are you sure there isn’t a system policy in place that inhibits VBA?
Edit: Some reading, if you’ve not already seen these:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282847/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287567
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281954/en-us – Applies to earlier versions, but some/all may still be relevant to 2k7