Excel 2016 mac vba evaluate error

Question

I am using Excel v16.9 on a mac running 10.13.3 and am trying to use the Evaluate function but it returns error Error 2015 .

The line that causes the error is:

temp = Evaluate(GetWebDataTest("https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/IBM?modules=assetProfile", 269, 150))

When I step through the code, GetWebDataTest is correctly evaluated but when the function ends the value is not returned to the variable test instead it shows Error 2015

The value that GetWebDataTest returns is:

"sector":"Technology","longBusinessSummary":"International Business Machines Corporation provides information technology (IT) products and services wo

Is this a bug with the Mac version of Excel or I am doing something wrong.

Update:

Upon further investigation of the problem, I have narrowed it down to Evaluate not being able to return a string. Consider the following code:

 temp = Evaluate(RetText())
 temp1 = Evaluate(RetNo())

Public Function RetText() As String
    RetText = "Te"
End Function
Public Function RetNo()
    RetNo = 5
End Function

When run, temp throw an error - Error 2029 whereas temp1 correctly is assigned the value 5.

It looks as though Evaluate will fail if the resulting function tries to return a string.

Answer 1

Evaluate tries to execute whatever it is given as a formula - so it thinks TE should be a defined Name which it can't find.

Try this:

Public Function RetText() As String
    RetText = "=""Te"""
End Function

or this

Public Function RetText() As String
    RetText = """Te"""
End Function