TheGreek Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Hey everyone! Forgive me if its not the right section to post to. I just bought Office 2013 and I love it. But I have my macros and styles in my normal.dotm and they can't seem to work in 2013 but they are fine in Office 2010. Can anybody help me out what to do? This is very important to me, I have a lot of work to do in Office and want to use 2013. Thanks! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morpheus6969 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 This link should help you out: http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/word-help/enable-or-disable-macros-in-office-files-HA010354316.aspx Cheers Hey everyone! Forgive me if its not the right section to post to. I just bought Office 2013 and I love it. But I have my macros and styles in my normal.dotm and they can't seem to work in 2013 but they are fine in Office 2010. Can anybody help me out what to do? This is very important to me, I have a lot of work to do in Office and want to use 2013. Thanks! Cheers! articuno1au 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AStaUK Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Also where have you copied your "normal.dotm" files to, for Office 2010/2013 it should be in "%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Also where have you copied your "normal.dotm" files to, for Office 2010/2013 it should be in "%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates". I copied there! I can see my macros in Office 2013 but they are not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AStaUK Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Okay, just verified with my PC. Copying the Word 2010 Normal.dotm to the same location in Word 2013 does copy across the macro's and they function without issue. Do you still have access to the 2010 installation, you could export the macro's to a file and them import them back to 2013? In Word 2010 enable the developer tab if not already available. Right click anywhere in the Ribbon Bar and select "customize the ribbon", place tick in Developer on the right hand section and OK the window. From the Developer tab select Visual Basic and expand Normal in the top left section, then expand Modules. Under Modules you should see your macro's. Select a macro and click File>Export and save the file to easy to access location. Repeat for each macro. For Word 2013. Rename the normal.dotm file to normal.dotm.old. And then open Word 2013 and open Visual Basic from the Developers tab. Now go File>Import and import the BAS files you exported in the previous steps. Close Visual Basic and then Word making sure you save as needed. Hopefully what I've typed makes sense and helps you. TheGreek 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Hey AStaley!This looks good and logical. I will try this after I get home!I will check back with the result. Thanks again for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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