Excel saving to 2003 problem.

Hi there.

I have a 2013 xlsm sheet to manage my stickers collections, but when i save as to "excel 2003" xls to my colleges use it for themselves it disables all macro buttons (activex), and they get transformed into a image (it seems)

I can create new buttons (in 2003) and seem to be working, but the old ones that come from 2013 stay disabled.

I could just make the 20-30 new buttons copy all code to them but i am always reviewing my xlsm with new features and bug corrections. So this is not practical.

i got default security settings on my 2013 and this doesn't seem to be the problem origin.

i googled a lot for this but ppl just say to disable the design mode...DHU....

anyone got any tips how can i fix this issue?

tyvm

JH

See if this works for you:

From other forums, I have learned that it is due to the MS Update and that a good fix is to simply delete the file MSForms.exd from any Temp subfolder in the user's profile. For instance:

C:\Users\[user.name]\AppData\Local\Temp\Excel8.0\MSForms.exd

C:\Users\[user.name]\AppData\Local\Temp\VBE\MSForms.exd

C:\Users\[user.name]\AppData\Local\Temp\Word8.0\MSForms.exd

Of course the application (Excel, Word...) must be closed in order to delete this file.