Re: Security Alert Popup Office 2007

Not too sure, I examined every inserted image in the presentation, now I've had time to investigate, and it appears two of the images have been dragged from a foreign picture editor so it came in as an "object" and will look for the app to edit it, also some of the images, if you right click on them, instead of the usual "change picture" you also get "edit picture" which of course says "this is an imported picture, not a group, do you want to convert etc."

So it seems that there are two instances, an imported image or an object created by dragging from a picture editor application.

With the chance of answering my own post, on further investigation of how to circumnavigate this "feature", if you put all the presentations in a specific folder and add this folder to your "Trust Centre > Trusted Locations" it seems to cure the pop up security alert.

Not really an answer, more a work-around, which makes a mockery of the original purpose of the alert,

Really need a better solution as not all technicians fully understand the reason behind your logic and this has only cropped up in 2007, the macro security in previous version normally cured the warning without the need to have a specific directory allocated for the purpose.

In message <VA.0000384c.04fbf5d0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Rindsberg <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
The trouble is (as I'm sure you're aware) when running a show all day
long and processing speakers every 15 mins you don't want this alert
appearing on the screen just because the "creator" of the presentation
doesn't know what they're doing.

Oh and by the way, it is absolute taboo to have the desktop appear on
the projected image. So it annoys me that Microsoft think it's clever to
warn you at the start of a presentation with a huge security alert that
you have to cancel to get the presentation to run, and not supply an
option to turn it off. Not very professional is it.

Not at all. I've begged for five minutes alone in a soundproof room with the
guy responsible for this. If they come through, I think we can make some big
bucks selling tickets to watch. <g>

Do you know what exactly's triggering the warning?


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