Re: Macros Disabled

Once again, I agree with you 100%. In point of fact that's exactly what I did and Word natters constantly. Go back to read the posts and you'll see the problem is that Word puts a file in a startup folder looking to "help" me. And then when Word starts up it recognizes a conflict between those settings you've described and the fact that there's a file in it's startup folder. So it asks what to do? Which is fine, but it asks repeatedly. Endlessly. Ad nauseam. It never remembers that it's already asked about this. And it never tells a poor dumb user to go sort through its internal files to resolve the problem.

I agree absolutely that Word should work like you and Suzanne have described. I'm only suggesting Microsoft should in fact make it work that way.

Bill
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"Tony Jollans" <My Forename at My Surname dot com> wrote in message news:%23af3HSaWGHA.2080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OQw#u2LWGHA.3376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
news:OuKabhGWGHA.3448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> If you set Macro Security to High, macros will be disabled
automatically.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
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> so
> all may benefit.
>
> "Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23A8vQxFWGHA.1192@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>> ------------------
>> "Charles Kenyon" <wordfaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23C8lTbCWGHA.840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > 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.
>> > --
>> > Charles Kenyon
>> >
>> > Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
>> >
>> > 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!
>> > --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
>> > This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
>> > and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
>> > from my ignorance and your wisdom.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:uUHEJ0BWGHA.3492@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>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
>> >> --------------------------------
>> >> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:enCJFd4VGHA.5460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>> 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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