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Message: Macros have been disabled. How to fix?
About a week ago, I noticed that Word started issuing a "Security
Warning" message in the message bar. It says "Macros have been disabled". I was swamped with work and didn't have time deal with it until today. After the message, is a box labelled "Options". Clicking on that box bring up a message box saying that macros have been disabled because "The digital signature has expired". It then has some information about the program whose signature has expired. It's a case management program that we have been using for many years, but have not upgraded to the last two upgrades. At the bottom of the box, I am offered two options: 1. Help protect me from unknown content (recommended). 2. Enable this content. I selected #2 and the warning message disappeared...until I opened another document or reopened this one after saving and closing. We are not going to upgrade this program, so I need another option. Another option in the message box was to open the Trust Center. Clicking on that, I see one of my options is "Trusted Publishers". Clicking on that, I see just one entry. It's this program and it says the expiration date was 7/24/09. I tried opening that entry, but there does not appear to be any way to override this. Very helpful, Microsoft. I noticed the next option is "Trusted Locations". The error message gave me the path to the offending file (a .dot file), so I click on "Add new location" and add that path. When I close out of everything, the warning message seems to have gone away -- at least for now. Did I just open up my machine to all kinds of malware? Is there a better way to solve this problem? |
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Message: Macros have been disabled. How to fix?
This must be Word 2007. Unless a digital signature is valid, macros in files
stored in a location other than a trusted location will display such a warning. Word 2007 allows you to trust more than the standard template locations as you have discovered. You are not open to any more problems than you were before, unless you add documents with auto-running macros to the folder you have just marked as trusted and open those documents - and even then only if those documents contain malicious code, which of course you would have already established before opening them, if they were not your own documents. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: About a week ago, I noticed that Word started issuing a "Security Warning" message in the message bar. It says "Macros have been disabled". I was swamped with work and didn't have time deal with it until today. After the message, is a box labelled "Options". Clicking on that box bring up a message box saying that macros have been disabled because "The digital signature has expired". It then has some information about the program whose signature has expired. It's a case management program that we have been using for many years, but have not upgraded to the last two upgrades. At the bottom of the box, I am offered two options: 1. Help protect me from unknown content (recommended). 2. Enable this content. I selected #2 and the warning message disappeared...until I opened another document or reopened this one after saving and closing. We are not going to upgrade this program, so I need another option. Another option in the message box was to open the Trust Center. Clicking on that, I see one of my options is "Trusted Publishers". Clicking on that, I see just one entry. It's this program and it says the expiration date was 7/24/09. I tried opening that entry, but there does not appear to be any way to override this. Very helpful, Microsoft. I noticed the next option is "Trusted Locations". The error message gave me the path to the offending file (a .dot file), so I click on "Add new location" and add that path. When I close out of everything, the warning message seems to have gone away -- at least for now. Did I just open up my machine to all kinds of malware? Is there a better way to solve this problem? |
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Message: Macros have been disabled. How to fix?
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:51:40 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote: This must be Word 2007. Unless a digital signature is valid, macros in files stored in a location other than a trusted location will display such a warning. Word 2007 allows you to trust more than the standard template locations as you have discovered. You are not open to any more problems than you were before, unless you add documents with auto-running macros to the folder you have just marked as trusted and open those documents - and even then only if those documents contain malicious code, which of course you would have already established before opening them, if they were not your own documents. Okey-dokey. Thanks. |
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