[Tony]

Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this project are
disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation of the host
application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did load
some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't program in VB.
Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone wrong to annoy me
evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony

[Jay Freedman]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.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.

Tony wrote:
Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this
project are disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation
of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did
load some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't
program in VB. Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone
wrong to annoy me evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony

[Tony]

Hi Jay - I used the Word's wizard. Still not fixed. Under "Trouble shoot
macro warnings" Macro Warnings/Built in wizards templates or custom commands
no longer work or I get a message that macros are disabled."

You run the Office Set up, then "Features to install" screen, "Office Shared
Features" then click into the "Visual Basic for Applications" - choose "Run
from My Computer".

Did the above - no change. Only have problems when opening Word, other
Office 2002 applications working OK.

Any further ideas or could you narrow the options you kindly offered to me?
I do appreciate your reply...
Regards Tony

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.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.

Tony wrote:
Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this
project are disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation
of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did
load some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't
program in VB. Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone
wrong to annoy me evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony

[Jay Freedman]

The advice in the Word Help topics, while technically correct, treat only
the _least_ likely causes of the problem, not the _most_ likely ones. It's
quite unusual (at least, outside of corporate setups) to have an Office
installation that doesn't include VBA, so I'm not surprised that rerunning
the installation didn't fix anything.

That's why I pointed you to the FAQ article on the MVP site, which does
discuss the procedure that's most likely to work. Specifically, look at the
section of the article titled "If you get an error message as soon as Word
opens, but it doesn't crash (e.g. "Compile Error in Hidden Module") ..." It
discusses removing any templates from the Startup folder [the footnote of
the article tells you where to find that folder].

Another thing to check on: Go to Tools Macro Security and set the
security level to Medium. Now, if a macro tries to run when you start Word,
you should get a popup with Disable and Enable buttons. If you're lucky, it
will even tell you the name of the file that contains the macro. Find that
file and nuke it. [Note: It isn't recommended to set the security level to
Low. That will stop the messages by allowing all macros to run, but if the
macro is a virus, then you're in big trouble and you won't even know it.]

--
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.

Tony wrote:
Hi Jay - I used the Word's wizard. Still not fixed. Under "Trouble
shoot macro warnings" Macro Warnings/Built in wizards templates or
custom commands no longer work or I get a message that macros are
disabled."

You run the Office Set up, then "Features to install" screen, "Office
Shared Features" then click into the "Visual Basic for Applications"
- choose "Run from My Computer".

Did the above - no change. Only have problems when opening Word, other
Office 2002 applications working OK.

Any further ideas or could you narrow the options you kindly offered
to me? I do appreciate your reply...
Regards Tony

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.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.

Tony wrote:
Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this
project are disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation
of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did
load some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't
program in VB. Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone
wrong to annoy me evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony

[Tony]

Thanks so much Jay. Your post gave me the solution (after I wrote the post
reply seeking more info - embarressed). "How to find if any Word Add-ins
have been installed" provided the clues looking for any Global Templates in
Word.

Go to Tools =="Templates and Add-ins" in Word and found a DOT file from an
accounting package.

Then to delete went to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Startup or
equivelent and using the file search part in XP, located the offending DOT
file and deleted it.

I had trouble locating contents of the Start Up Folder. Could see the Start
Up folder but nothing in it - that threw me off the track for a bit. But used
the C:\Progagram....path as above and got there in the end.

The annoying message warning has gone - you helped me get there!!!

Thanks so much.
"Jay Freedman" wrote:

The advice in the Word Help topics, while technically correct, treat only
the _least_ likely causes of the problem, not the _most_ likely ones. It's
quite unusual (at least, outside of corporate setups) to have an Office
installation that doesn't include VBA, so I'm not surprised that rerunning
the installation didn't fix anything.

That's why I pointed you to the FAQ article on the MVP site, which does
discuss the procedure that's most likely to work. Specifically, look at the
section of the article titled "If you get an error message as soon as Word
opens, but it doesn't crash (e.g. "Compile Error in Hidden Module") ..." It
discusses removing any templates from the Startup folder [the footnote of
the article tells you where to find that folder].

Another thing to check on: Go to Tools Macro Security and set the
security level to Medium. Now, if a macro tries to run when you start Word,
you should get a popup with Disable and Enable buttons. If you're lucky, it
will even tell you the name of the file that contains the macro. Find that
file and nuke it. [Note: It isn't recommended to set the security level to
Low. That will stop the messages by allowing all macros to run, but if the
macro is a virus, then you're in big trouble and you won't even know it.]

--
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.

Tony wrote:
Hi Jay - I used the Word's wizard. Still not fixed. Under "Trouble
shoot macro warnings" Macro Warnings/Built in wizards templates or
custom commands no longer work or I get a message that macros are
disabled."

You run the Office Set up, then "Features to install" screen, "Office
Shared Features" then click into the "Visual Basic for Applications"
- choose "Run from My Computer".

Did the above - no change. Only have problems when opening Word, other
Office 2002 applications working OK.

Any further ideas or could you narrow the options you kindly offered
to me? I do appreciate your reply...
Regards Tony

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.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.

Tony wrote:
Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this
project are disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation
of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did
load some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't
program in VB. Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone
wrong to annoy me evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony

[ejlowe]

I have a similar problem. I open many Word documents from colleagues that
have macros, but I would like to permanently disable all macros and avoid the
warning message. Do you know of a way to do this? Naturally I tried going
into tools and changing macro security, but this only works in the doc I have
open.
Eric

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

The advice in the Word Help topics, while technically correct, treat only
the _least_ likely causes of the problem, not the _most_ likely ones. It's
quite unusual (at least, outside of corporate setups) to have an Office
installation that doesn't include VBA, so I'm not surprised that rerunning
the installation didn't fix anything.

That's why I pointed you to the FAQ article on the MVP site, which does
discuss the procedure that's most likely to work. Specifically, look at the
section of the article titled "If you get an error message as soon as Word
opens, but it doesn't crash (e.g. "Compile Error in Hidden Module") ..." It
discusses removing any templates from the Startup folder [the footnote of
the article tells you where to find that folder].

Another thing to check on: Go to Tools Macro Security and set the
security level to Medium. Now, if a macro tries to run when you start Word,
you should get a popup with Disable and Enable buttons. If you're lucky, it
will even tell you the name of the file that contains the macro. Find that
file and nuke it. [Note: It isn't recommended to set the security level to
Low. That will stop the messages by allowing all macros to run, but if the
macro is a virus, then you're in big trouble and you won't even know it.]

--
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.

Tony wrote:
Hi Jay - I used the Word's wizard. Still not fixed. Under "Trouble
shoot macro warnings" Macro Warnings/Built in wizards templates or
custom commands no longer work or I get a message that macros are
disabled."

You run the Office Set up, then "Features to install" screen, "Office
Shared Features" then click into the "Visual Basic for Applications"
- choose "Run from My Computer".

Did the above - no change. Only have problems when opening Word, other
Office 2002 applications working OK.

Any further ideas or could you narrow the options you kindly offered
to me? I do appreciate your reply...
Regards Tony

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.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.

Tony wrote:
Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this
project are disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation
of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did
load some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't
program in VB. Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone
wrong to annoy me evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you change the macro security to High or Very High, macros will be
disabled without a message.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"ejlowe" wrote in message
...
I have a similar problem. I open many Word documents from colleagues that
have macros, but I would like to permanently disable all macros and avoid
the
warning message. Do you know of a way to do this? Naturally I tried
going
into tools and changing macro security, but this only works in the doc I
have
open.
Eric

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

The advice in the Word Help topics, while technically correct, treat only
the _least_ likely causes of the problem, not the _most_ likely ones.
It's
quite unusual (at least, outside of corporate setups) to have an Office
installation that doesn't include VBA, so I'm not surprised that
rerunning
the installation didn't fix anything.

That's why I pointed you to the FAQ article on the MVP site, which does
discuss the procedure that's most likely to work. Specifically, look at
the
section of the article titled "If you get an error message as soon as
Word
opens, but it doesn't crash (e.g. "Compile Error in Hidden Module") ..."
It
discusses removing any templates from the Startup folder [the footnote of
the article tells you where to find that folder].

Another thing to check on: Go to Tools Macro Security and set the
security level to Medium. Now, if a macro tries to run when you start
Word,
you should get a popup with Disable and Enable buttons. If you're lucky,
it
will even tell you the name of the file that contains the macro. Find
that
file and nuke it. [Note: It isn't recommended to set the security level
to
Low. That will stop the messages by allowing all macros to run, but if
the
macro is a virus, then you're in big trouble and you won't even know it.]

--
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.

Tony wrote:
Hi Jay - I used the Word's wizard. Still not fixed. Under "Trouble
shoot macro warnings" Macro Warnings/Built in wizards templates or
custom commands no longer work or I get a message that macros are
disabled."

You run the Office Set up, then "Features to install" screen, "Office
Shared Features" then click into the "Visual Basic for Applications"
- choose "Run from My Computer".

Did the above - no change. Only have problems when opening Word, other
Office 2002 applications working OK.

Any further ideas or could you narrow the options you kindly offered
to me? I do appreciate your reply...
Regards Tony

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.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.

Tony wrote:
Opening Word - the following window pops up "The macros in this
project are disabled. Please refer to the online Help documentation
of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

How to make this message go away and stop appearing? Ages ago I did
load some Visual Basic menu items to see what they did. I can't
program in VB. Have no idea. Just a silly experiment that has gone
wrong to annoy me evertime I run Word.

Please help how to turn this thing off or get rid of it permanently.
Regards Tony