Macro greyed out.

A month or so ago IT had to do a full reinstall of my Corel program.  (Single license, 2021) after it suddenly wouldn't launch past the spashscreen.   After many attempts to reinstall, they got Corel Support involved in a LogMeIn session as the installer would not work.   To finally get it installed, we had to not load the VBA module at install time.   Program loaded and I've been using it ok since.   I've been learning to live without VBA (I really miss my scripts!)   So I decided that I would use the built in Macro recorder that comes with Corel.  However the "OK" button to start recording is grey. Does the macro depend on VBA? I didn't think it did.   

By the way, I have tried to install the VBA after the fact using the "Add Feature" option on the installer, but it won't fly.  I didn't want to risk crashing the system again.