Cannot run the macro the macro may not be available in this workbook

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I am trying to call a sub on a different worksheet but I got a run time error message    Specifically  I have two worksheets and multiple VBA sub s in those worksheets  In one of the VBA Project  say workbook1 xlsm   I have the following code   Sub AnalysisTableMacro   Workbooks  Python solution macro xlsm   Activate Application Run  Python solution macro xlsm  PreparetheTables  End Sub   But I got the following error  The macros on both worksheets are enabled  In both worksheets  the subs are in Module1       Cannot run the macro  Workbook xlsm PrepareTheTables   The macro may not be available in  this workbook or all macros may be disabled    I also tried Application Run  Python solution macro xlsm Module1 PreparetheTables  but did not work

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If you have a space in the name of the workbook you must use single quotes     around the file name  I have also removed the full stop   Application Run   Python solution macro xlsm  PreparetheTables

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In my case the error happened when I placed my macro  public sub  into a ThisWorkbook section of the file expecting it will make it visible for Application Run function  This was not the case and I got that error you mentioned   I moved my macro into a separate Module and it resolved the problem

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This error also occurs if you create a sub or function in a  Microsoft Excel Object   like Sheet1  Sheet2       instead to create it in a Module   For example  you create with VBA a button and set  OnAction    btn action    And Sub btn action you placed into the Sheet object instead into a Module

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I had the same problem as OP and found was due to the options declaration being misspelled      Comment comment    Options Explicit    Sub someMacroMakechart     in a sub module  instead of correct     Comment comment    Option Explicit    Sub someMacroMakechart

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Per Microsoft s KB  try allowing programmatic access to the Visual Basic project         Click the Microsoft Office Button  and then click Excel Options    Click Trust Center    Click Trust Center Settings    Click Macro Settings    Click to select the Trust access to the VBA project object model check box    Click OK to close the Excel Options dialog box    You may need to close and re-open excel

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You also run into this issue when you are creating routine in a class module     When you try to run the code externally  you get this error  You can t assign macro to button to a member of a class module either     If you try to run from within the code by pressing green play button you will also see the same error     Either move the routine in to a regular module or create a new routine in a regular module that calls the class member

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Delete your name macro and build again  I did this  and the macro worked

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Go into task manager and see if you have any Microsoft Excel Processes running in the background  I closed my excel background processes and my code worked again

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In my case this error came up when the Sub name was identical to the Module name

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I had to remove all dashes and underscores from file names and macro names  make sure that macro were enabled and add them module name macro name  This is what I ended up with  Application Run       amp  WbName  amp       amp    ModuleName MacroName

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Had the same issue and I  Compiled VBA Project  which identified an error  After correction and compiling  the macros worked

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I had a problem with this error as well  turned out the the filename was causing the problem   I was calling it like this  Application Run      amp  strPath  amp  strFName  amp     UPC PrintaFew   The variable strFName contained an apostrophe in it which  of course messed things up  Took me hours to figure it out  But once the apostrophe was removed from the filename it worked

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I had the same error message  Cannot find the macro     etc  and this problem persisted even after I d saved the file as an XLSX  This seemed very odd     how could it be running a macro when the file has no macros    When I examined the file using the Custom UI Editor  I found that a macro was being called when the file was initialized and another custom macro was being called when the user clicked the Save button   Using the Custom UI Editor  I removed all the XML code and the error messages disappeared

[excel] Cannot run the macro... the macro may not be available in this workbook

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