Most likely you did not install VBA from the Shared Features part of Setup.
By default VBA is not installed.

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Jim
"greg" wrote in message
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| Hello,
| I just installed office 2007 on a new VM.
| In excel I figured out how to turn on the developer tab.
| But the record macro and visual basic and macros buttons are disabled.
| how do you turn them on?
| thanks
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