Re: Macros Disabled

Updating Word from Microsoft's website will not put Add-Ins in your startup
folder!
Updating the program that put the Add-In there to start with might.
--
Charles Kenyon

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"Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In fact I have done what you say and that's the only thing that solves the
problem. Also in fact however I've had to do it repeatedly whenever I
allow Office to update it's program from Microsoft's web site.

This whole thread began with the statement that I knew the solution to the
problem after hours of effort, and with help from this group, but that it
seemed Microsoft might want to eliminate the problem in future. Or not...
?

Bill
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you have an add-in in your Startup folder whose functionality you
don't
want (since you're consistently disabling it), then why don't you just
move
it out of the Startup folder?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Bill Martin" <Wylie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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
news:OuKabhGWGHA.3448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you set Macro Security to High, macros will be disabled
automatically.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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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.
--
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!
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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
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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