Re: Registry patch to lower security of word - Word does not respond
- From: "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:14:48 +0300
The registry key in question is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Data\Settings
This is a user key, binary and non-editable, which contains most of the
settings in tools > options and a few other things besides.. The only
practical way to set it is through tools > options > security > macro
security > trusted publishers > trust all installed templates and add-ins.
If you cannot attend the sites, the easiest plan will be to instruct the
users to set this option.
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Dixie wrote:
The second option is not possible as the sites are spread over a
distance of more than 1200km. As you can tell, I am not a Word person
Graham, what do you mean by the "Word data key settings sub key "? Is this
an easy thing to set?
"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OmWreoAyGHA.2516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NO! NO! NO!
Do *NOT* set the security of your users PCs to low. This will open
the door to macro viruses and is not necessary for what you want to
achieve. You need to set the user's PCs to trust installed templates
and add-ins. This (and the macro security) is set from the Word data
key settings sub key along with a load of other settings. This
binary key does not lend itself to manual manipulation in the manner
you imagine. You are either going to have to instruct the users how to
set macro
security to trust installed templates and add-ins, or do what the
company is paying you for and adjust each one yourself.
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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Dixie wrote:
I need to change the security of Word 2003 to allow it to enable
macros in templates in a large site with dozens of computers. Every
computer has Word's default security set to high. I have come up
with this registry patch.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Security]
"Level"=dword:00000001
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I found the key by watching what key changed in the registry when I
lowered the security of Word manually. Now I am really perplexed.
If I run this registry patch, it changes the key shown from 3 (high)
to 1 (low), just as doing it manually via Word does. However, when
you go back into Word, the Security is still set to high, even
though the Level is set to 1 in the registry. Surely I am missing
something here. The registry key responds to changing the macro
security in Word, but Word does not respond to having the key
changed from outside.
Can anyone please help with this, as this key is on
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which means in the network environment it is in,
it has to be done once for each person using each workstation. This
is a very large manual task.
TIA
dixie
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