When you close the workbook, you'll be prompted to save both the workbook, and the Personal Macro workbook. This is the most important step, because if you don't already have a Personal Macro Workbook, Excel will create one for you.Ĭlick Developer > Stop Recording, and Excel will have created your Personal Macro worbook. In the Store macro in box, pick Personal Macro Workbook > OK. When you do start creating macros of your own, you'll want to give them descriptive names, so you know what they do.
You can accept the name that Excel gives you, such as Macro1, since this is just a temporary macro. In the Record Macro dialog box, don't bother entering a name for the macro in the Macro name box. Go to the Developer tab, and click Record Macro. You can learn more about creating macros in Quick start: Create a macro. We’ll record a macro that does nothing, but will create the Personal Macro workbook.
For more information, see Show the Developer tab. Macros and VBA tools can be found on the Developer tab, which is hidden by default, so the first step is to enable it.
