Re: Macros Disabled

I rather think you're making a mountain out of a molehill here.

If you don't want any macros to run, ever, and you don't want to be nagged
then set security to Very High and uncheck both boxes on the Trusted
Publishers tab.

I do agree that, for an average user, the wording on the dialog (and in the
help) isn't particularly clear and doesn't really explain what or where a
trusted location is.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You've put your finger precisely my complaint. I agree Word should work
the
way you say. However, if I simply set security "High" then Word badgers
me
10 times a day to turn on macros.

Word will not quietly accept my telling it to run "High", and it won't
quietly accept me overriding the macros the first time. It continues to
natter about macros every single time Word is opened or closed. And when
I
follow the help prompts, Word tells me to set security "Low" - unless I
think there might be viruses somewhere in the world.

Does this seem like a good user interface to you? Or more like something
that Microsoft could fix trivially if it chose to - simply by suppressing
the prompt after the first warning?

Bill
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you set Macro Security to High, macros will be disabled
automatically.

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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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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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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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