Re: Message Box About Macros When Open Word

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Hi Terry

Opening Word in Safe Mode eliminated the problem. The program will both open
and close without error. I haven't voluntarily installed a third party
add-in. The error notifications began immediately after I installed Office
2007, and they only occur in Word and do not occur in Excel.

Do you think that I should perform an uninstall and reinstall of Office 2007?

Thanks for your help.

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"Terry Farrell" wrote:

What happens if you start in Safe Mode? From the Run command (Winkey+R) type
in

winword /a

and press enter. Word will start in Safe Mode. Does it open without the
error now and more importantly, does it close without the error? If it is
OK, you are looking for some incompatible third party add-in that is forcing
incompatible macros into Word.

Terry

"WPD" <county(please-delete-this)pyrenees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Terry

I located normal.dotm in the c:\documents etc. folder that you specifed. I
changed it to Normal.bad, and then I opened Word 2007. I still got the
same
message box about Macros as I got originally. However, this time when I
tried
to close Word 2007by clicking on the window's "X", the same message box
about
Macros popped-up again. This time there was only the one box and it closed
with a single click on the "OK" button. However, Word 2007 did NOT close,
so
I clicked on the "X" again. This time, I got different pop-up box that
said
that "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal.dotm.
Do
you want to save these changes?" I clicked on the "Yes" button, and this
caused the same message box about Macros to pop-up, again. I clicked on
the
"X" again, and the "Changes have been made....." box pooped up again. This
time, I clicked on "No", and Word 2007 finally closed.

When I checked to see if a new normal.dotm had been created, I found only
the original file that I had converted from Normal.dotm to Normal.bad.

Any thoughts on my next step?

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"Terry Farrell" wrote:

Find normal.dot in your profile and rename it as normal.bad. This will
normally be in C:\documents and settings\username\application
data\microsoft\templates fiolder.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"WPD" <county(please-delete-this)pyrenees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all

When I open Word, I get a pop-up box that says:
"The function you are attempting to run contains macros or content that
requires macro language support. When this software was installed, you
(or
your administrator) chose not to install support for macros or
controls."

I am NOT trying to open a document in Word when this happens. I am just
opening Word, itself. The information in the box babbles on about trust
settings. However, even if I set it to trust any macro that comes down
the
pike, I still get the same message box. Indeed, why would there even be
a
macro in the base Word executable that would trigger this message box?

To close the box, you must either click on the "OK" button or the X
button
6
times before no more instances of this pop-up box occurs.

Any ideas. BTW, I have done searches in both Google and this forum, but
I
haven't found anything.

Thanks for the help.


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