Receiving Error Messages Re: Macros When I Open All Word Docs.

Hi,

Whenever I open any Word Doc. I get the following messages:

"The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK,
and then close open dialog boxes to continue."

I click ok.

There's then another error message:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP\PDFMaker.dot
contains macros by Adobe Systems Incorporated

Macros may contain viruses. It is usually safe to disable macros, but if
the macros are legitimate you may lose some functionality.

The security level is set to High. Therefore, you cannot enable macros from
sources that you do not trust."

I am then given the option to check a box entitled:

"Always trust macros from this publisher."

Or I can click on "Disable Macros."

If I close both of these boxes without doing anything another error message
appears:

"The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to online help or
documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

I click ok and the document opens.

I didn't purposely create macros. Most of my word docs. don't have macros.
A few might because I copied/pasted articles from newspapers but these error
messages appear in simple letters I've typed that contain no macros.

How do I get rid of all these error messages?

Thanks.

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MY SPECS:

Dell Latitude D820
Genuine Intel[R] CPU
T2300 @ 1.66 GHz
981MHz, 0.99 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension
Win XP, Home Edition, Version 2002
Service Pack 2
IE 6.0
Word 2003
Adobe Reader 8

Terry
Thu Apr 12 13:18:27 CDT 2007

Find the PDFMaker.dot in the Word Startup folder and rename it PDFMaker.bad.

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Athena28" <yourdisplayname@discussions.microsoft.com.> wrote in message
news:5864DBE5-2856-4E4F-8EBB-D075B542B1EE@microsoft.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I open any Word Doc. I get the following messages:
>
> "The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK,
> and then close open dialog boxes to continue."
>
> I click ok.
>
> There's then another error message:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP\PDFMaker.dot
> contains macros by Adobe Systems Incorporated
>
> Macros may contain viruses. It is usually safe to disable macros, but if
> the macros are legitimate you may lose some functionality.
>
> The security level is set to High. Therefore, you cannot enable macros
> from
> sources that you do not trust."
>
> I am then given the option to check a box entitled:
>
> "Always trust macros from this publisher."
>
> Or I can click on "Disable Macros."
>
> If I close both of these boxes without doing anything another error
> message
> appears:
>
> "The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to online help or
> documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."
>
> I click ok and the document opens.
>
> I didn't purposely create macros. Most of my word docs. don't have
> macros.
> A few might because I copied/pasted articles from newspapers but these
> error
> messages appear in simple letters I've typed that contain no macros.
>
> How do I get rid of all these error messages?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> MY SPECS:
>
> Dell Latitude D820
> Genuine Intel[R] CPU
> T2300 @ 1.66 GHz
> 981MHz, 0.99 GB of RAM
> Physical Address Extension
> Win XP, Home Edition, Version 2002
> Service Pack 2
> IE 6.0
> Word 2003
> Adobe Reader 8

yourdisplayname
Thu Apr 12 13:38:01 CDT 2007

Thanks for the help, Terry.

Guess my next ques. would be where to find the Word Startup Folder? I
looked in help on Word and there doesn't seem to be anything specific.


Thanks.

Jay
Thu Apr 12 19:53:48 CDT 2007

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:38:01 -0700, Athena28
<yourdisplayname@discussions.microsoft.com.> wrote:

>Thanks for the help, Terry.
>
>Guess my next ques. would be where to find the Word Startup Folder? I
>looked in help on Word and there doesn't seem to be anything specific.
>
>
>Thanks.
>

It's the one in the error message you quoted in your first post:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP\PDFMaker.dot

Actually, you can have the PDFMaker add-in without the error messages.
There's another Startup folder, specifically for Word, at the location

%appdata%\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

Move (not copy) the PDFMaker.dot file from the first location to the
second one. In Word, go to the Tools > Macro > Security dialog, click
the Trusted Publishers tab, and check the box for "Trust all installed
add-ins and templates". The next time you start Word, you should see
no messages, but PDFMaker should work.

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yourdisplayname
Fri Apr 13 13:46:02 CDT 2007

Thanks again.

I enabled the macros and was receiving a diff. message error so I went right
to the file and just changed it's name. So far new (blank) Word docs. and old
word docs. seem to be opening without trouble (I don't use Adobe except for
reading docs. anyway so I'm not that concerned about changing themn to .pdfs).

Thanks again.