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Programmically set template security on 1 .DOT file
I have been asked to repackage a third party application that installs a Word
Template with a toolbar. The .DOT file is always placed in the Office Startup folder so that the user can click in the toolbar to activate the template. While I have been able to get this working by performing a FileCopy type of operation in the MST, when the user opens Word 2003, they get a security warning. I need to be able to script the sequence of checking the €œAlways trust macros from this publisher€ checkbox and clicking on the €œEnable Macros€ button at the time of installation of the third party application so that each user does not get prompted with this warning. Can you provide me with the registry settings necessary to be created or modified to accomplish this? Office 2003 is a prerequisite to installing the application so it will always be present at install time. The customer is running Office 2003 with Service Pack 2, on a Windows XP SP2 platform. Please let me know if you need any additional information. -- Thanks, Mark |
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Programmically set template security on 1 .DOT file
FWIW, if you install the template in the Word Startup folder instead of the
Office Startup folder, then it will be covered by "Trust all installed templates and add-ins," and there will be no security message. -- 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 newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mark Mears" wrote in message ... I have been asked to repackage a third party application that installs a Word Template with a toolbar. The .DOT file is always placed in the Office Startup folder so that the user can click in the toolbar to activate the template. While I have been able to get this working by performing a FileCopy type of operation in the MST, when the user opens Word 2003, they get a security warning. I need to be able to script the sequence of checking the €œAlways trust macros from this publisher€ checkbox and clicking on the €œEnable Macros€ button at the time of installation of the third party application so that each user does not get prompted with this warning. Can you provide me with the registry settings necessary to be created or modified to accomplish this? Office 2003 is a prerequisite to installing the application so it will always be present at install time. The customer is running Office 2003 with Service Pack 2, on a Windows XP SP2 platform. Please let me know if you need any additional information. -- Thanks, Mark |
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Programmically set template security on 1 .DOT file
What is that location? I looked in the Microsoft Office structure but did
not see anything that looked like it. -- Thanks, Mark "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, if you install the template in the Word Startup folder instead of the Office Startup folder, then it will be covered by "Trust all installed templates and add-ins," and there will be no security message. -- 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 newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mark Mears" wrote in message ... I have been asked to repackage a third party application that installs a Word Template with a toolbar. The .DOT file is always placed in the Office Startup folder so that the user can click in the toolbar to activate the template. While I have been able to get this working by performing a FileCopy type of operation in the MST, when the user opens Word 2003, they get a security warning. I need to be able to script the sequence of checking the €œAlways trust macros from this publisher€ checkbox and clicking on the €œEnable Macros€ button at the time of installation of the third party application so that each user does not get prompted with this warning. Can you provide me with the registry settings necessary to be created or modified to accomplish this? Office 2003 is a prerequisite to installing the application so it will always be present at install time. The customer is running Office 2003 with Service Pack 2, on a Windows XP SP2 platform. Please let me know if you need any additional information. -- Thanks, Mark |
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Its default location is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP, although it can be altered in the Tools Options File Locations dialog. It's specific to the user profile for username. You may have missed it because the Application Data folder and everything under it is a hidden folder, so you need to turn on display of hidden folders in Windows Explorer (Tools Folder Options View). More info at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Mark Mears wrote: What is that location? I looked in the Microsoft Office structure but did not see anything that looked like it. FWIW, if you install the template in the Word Startup folder instead of the Office Startup folder, then it will be covered by "Trust all installed templates and add-ins," and there will be no security message. -- 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 newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mark Mears" wrote in message ... I have been asked to repackage a third party application that installs a Word Template with a toolbar. The .DOT file is always placed in the Office Startup folder so that the user can click in the toolbar to activate the template. While I have been able to get this working by performing a FileCopy type of operation in the MST, when the user opens Word 2003, they get a security warning. I need to be able to script the sequence of checking the "Always trust macros from this publisher" checkbox and clicking on the "Enable Macros" button at the time of installation of the third party application so that each user does not get prompted with this warning. Can you provide me with the registry settings necessary to be created or modified to accomplish this? Office 2003 is a prerequisite to installing the application so it will always be present at install time. The customer is running Office 2003 with Service Pack 2, on a Windows XP SP2 platform. Please let me know if you need any additional information. -- Thanks, Mark |
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Is there a way that a new user would autiomatically receive the template? If
I could add it to the Default User profile I could see where that would work, but Default User does not have a Word folder under Application Data. As well, the third party application places the DOT file in the Office11\Startup folder. Would it accomplish what I want by using the CMW and importing ther CER file from there and distributing it to the machines? -- Thanks, Mark "Jay Freedman" wrote: Its default location is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP, although it can be altered in the Tools Options File Locations dialog. It's specific to the user profile for username. You may have missed it because the Application Data folder and everything under it is a hidden folder, so you need to turn on display of hidden folders in Windows Explorer (Tools Folder Options View). More info at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Mark Mears wrote: What is that location? I looked in the Microsoft Office structure but did not see anything that looked like it. FWIW, if you install the template in the Word Startup folder instead of the Office Startup folder, then it will be covered by "Trust all installed templates and add-ins," and there will be no security message. -- 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 newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mark Mears" wrote in message ... I have been asked to repackage a third party application that installs a Word Template with a toolbar. The .DOT file is always placed in the Office Startup folder so that the user can click in the toolbar to activate the template. While I have been able to get this working by performing a FileCopy type of operation in the MST, when the user opens Word 2003, they get a security warning. I need to be able to script the sequence of checking the "Always trust macros from this publisher" checkbox and clicking on the "Enable Macros" button at the time of installation of the third party application so that each user does not get prompted with this warning. Can you provide me with the registry settings necessary to be created or modified to accomplish this? Office 2003 is a prerequisite to installing the application so it will always be present at install time. The customer is running Office 2003 with Service Pack 2, on a Windows XP SP2 platform. Please let me know if you need any additional information. -- Thanks, Mark |
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The footnote in the article I cited before explains why the Office11\Startup
folder isn't a good place for any templates. You didn't say what kind of repackaging program you're using, but in general you need to find the login name of the current user and use that to create the template's installation path. The code in http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...urUserName.htm may help, if you can translate it into whatever scripting language your software uses. I don't know the answer to the questions about the CMW. You might get answers in the microsoft.public.office.setup or microsoft.public.word.vba.general newsgroups. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Mark Mears wrote: Is there a way that a new user would autiomatically receive the template? If I could add it to the Default User profile I could see where that would work, but Default User does not have a Word folder under Application Data. As well, the third party application places the DOT file in the Office11\Startup folder. Would it accomplish what I want by using the CMW and importing ther CER file from there and distributing it to the machines? Its default location is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP, although it can be altered in the Tools Options File Locations dialog. It's specific to the user profile for username. You may have missed it because the Application Data folder and everything under it is a hidden folder, so you need to turn on display of hidden folders in Windows Explorer (Tools Folder Options View). More info at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Mark Mears wrote: What is that location? I looked in the Microsoft Office structure but did not see anything that looked like it. FWIW, if you install the template in the Word Startup folder instead of the Office Startup folder, then it will be covered by "Trust all installed templates and add-ins," and there will be no security message. -- 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 newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mark Mears" wrote in message ... I have been asked to repackage a third party application that installs a Word Template with a toolbar. The .DOT file is always placed in the Office Startup folder so that the user can click in the toolbar to activate the template. While I have been able to get this working by performing a FileCopy type of operation in the MST, when the user opens Word 2003, they get a security warning. I need to be able to script the sequence of checking the "Always trust macros from this publisher" checkbox and clicking on the "Enable Macros" button at the time of installation of the third party application so that each user does not get prompted with this warning. Can you provide me with the registry settings necessary to be created or modified to accomplish this? Office 2003 is a prerequisite to installing the application so it will always be present at install time. The customer is running Office 2003 with Service Pack 2, on a Windows XP SP2 platform. Please let me know if you need any additional information. -- Thanks, Mark |
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