Re: Macros Disabled

If you set Macro Security to High, macros will be disabled automatically.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You're missing the point that I didn't install it either. Somehow when
Word
installed its updates, it looked around on the disk and thought that would
be a good file to move there with no guidance from me, and no other
program
active. When I killed that file before, it stayed killed until Word
installed its updates.

And that as a poor, dumb, ignorant user I have no way of knowing it's
there
or how it got there. As a systems programmer I have some appreciation of
what's going on, but should one have to be a systems programmer to use a
simple word processor?

I'm simply maintaining that if I tell Word to run no macros, it should be
smart enough to do what it's told. Do you disagree?

Bill
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"Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Then don't try to load files that have macros.

Word did _not_ put a FineMacro6.dot in a Startup folder. You did, or
some
other program you installed did. The people who wrote that program think
you need their macros. If you disagree, fine. Then don't use it.
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"Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know anything about this and you may well be right. HOWEVER....
Do I really need to know this much about Office internals, and where
what
files are stored by whom to be allowed to set security "High" and write
a
simple grocery list?

For that matter, I don't want to "trust all installed templates and
add-ins" anyhow. I just want no macros, no add ins, nothing but a dead
dumb word processor that doesn't natter about macros 10 times a day
when
I already told it I don't want to execute any.

Bill
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Word will not question anything in its own Startup folder provided you
have
"Trust all installed templates and add-ins" checked on the Trusted
Sources
tab of Tools | Macro | Security. Unfortunately, this trust does not
extend
to the Office Startup folder.





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