Macro has been disabled because of your security setting...

Hello,
I wrote a macro in Word 2000 template and add it to the menu bar for users.
It works fine if I set the security setting to "Low". But I don't want to
set the Security to "Low", then I got message "Macro cannot be found or Macro
has been disabled because of your security setting" when run the macro. Is
there a way to get rid of this message or enable the macro in code? Please
help.
Thanks in advance!!

Jean-Guy
Thu May 24 11:56:00 CDT 2007

Miriam was telling us:
Miriam nous racontait que :

> Hello,
> I wrote a macro in Word 2000 template and add it to the menu bar for
> users. It works fine if I set the security setting to "Low". But I
> don't want to set the Security to "Low", then I got message "Macro
> cannot be found or Macro has been disabled because of your security
> setting" when run the macro. Is there a way to get rid of this
> message or enable the macro in code? Please help.
> Thanks in advance!!

If a macro could change a security setting that is design to prevent macros
from running, then it would not be a very good security system...
Sorry, but that is just the way it is designed to work.

--

Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

david
Thu May 24 13:37:02 CDT 2007

Miriam:

I KNOW Dian Chapman had an article on this in MouseTrax, but I'm darned if I
can find it. But you want to look into self-certification. You can certify
yourself as a trusted source and your macros will be able to run on other
settings than low.

Bear
--
Windows XP, Word 2000


"Miriam" wrote:

> Hello,
> I wrote a macro in Word 2000 template and add it to the menu bar for users.
> It works fine if I set the security setting to "Low". But I don't want to
> set the Security to "Low", then I got message "Macro cannot be found or Macro
> has been disabled because of your security setting" when run the macro. Is
> there a way to get rid of this message or enable the macro in code? Please
> help.
> Thanks in advance!!
>

Jean-Guy
Thu May 24 14:36:33 CDT 2007

Bear was telling us:
Bear nous racontait que :

> Miriam:
>
> I KNOW Dian Chapman had an article on this in MouseTrax, but I'm
> darned if I can find it. But you want to look into
> self-certification. You can certify yourself as a trusted source and
> your macros will be able to run on other settings than low.
>

If I remember correctly, this will not work for distribution purposes.

If distributing, I guess I should have added that there is an alternative.
Just make sure that users place the templates in either the User Templates
or Workgroup Templates folders, and the macros will run, regardless of the
security settings, as long as the option "Trust all installed add-ins and
templates" is checked under Tools > Macro > Security... > Trusted Publishers
tab.

--

Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

Miriam
Mon May 28 09:16:01 CDT 2007

Thank you all for the replies.

My templates do have "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" option
checked when I set the Security to "Low". Could you please explain what that
means "Just make sure that users place the templates in either User Templates
or Workgroup Templates folders"?. Are there any different between these two
folders and other folders?

Thanks again.



"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

> Bear was telling us:
> Bear nous racontait que :
>
> > Miriam:
> >
> > I KNOW Dian Chapman had an article on this in MouseTrax, but I'm
> > darned if I can find it. But you want to look into
> > self-certification. You can certify yourself as a trusted source and
> > your macros will be able to run on other settings than low.
> >
>
> If I remember correctly, this will not work for distribution purposes.
>
> If distributing, I guess I should have added that there is an alternative.
> Just make sure that users place the templates in either the User Templates
> or Workgroup Templates folders, and the macros will run, regardless of the
> security settings, as long as the option "Trust all installed add-ins and
> templates" is checked under Tools > Macro > Security... > Trusted Publishers
> tab.
>
> --
>
> Salut!
> _______________________________________
> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
>
>
>

Jean-Guy
Mon May 28 11:24:22 CDT 2007

Miriam was telling us:
Miriam nous racontait que :

> Thank you all for the replies.
>
> My templates do have "Trust all installed add-ins and templates"
> option checked when I set the Security to "Low". Could you please
> explain what that means "Just make sure that users place the
> templates in either User Templates or Workgroup Templates folders"?.
> Are there any different between these two folders and other folders?

If you set your macro security to "Low", then it does not matter where you
place the templates.
But as soon as the security is set to "Medium" or higher, there will be
warnings and macros can be disabled automatically.

As I wrote before, if you place the templates in the User Templates or
Workgroup Templates folders *and* you activate "Trust all installed add-ins
and templates", then regardless of the security settings (Even with "High"),
macros will run seamlessly because that's what that "Trust all installed
add-ins and templates" does, it tells Word to trust the templates in those
folders (As well as the Start-up folder, but this is for add-ins and global
templates).

--

Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

Miriam
Tue May 29 08:57:00 CDT 2007

Thank you very much for the information :)

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

> Miriam was telling us:
> Miriam nous racontait que :
>
> > Thank you all for the replies.
> >
> > My templates do have "Trust all installed add-ins and templates"
> > option checked when I set the Security to "Low". Could you please
> > explain what that means "Just make sure that users place the
> > templates in either User Templates or Workgroup Templates folders"?.
> > Are there any different between these two folders and other folders?
>
> If you set your macro security to "Low", then it does not matter where you
> place the templates.
> But as soon as the security is set to "Medium" or higher, there will be
> warnings and macros can be disabled automatically.
>
> As I wrote before, if you place the templates in the User Templates or
> Workgroup Templates folders *and* you activate "Trust all installed add-ins
> and templates", then regardless of the security settings (Even with "High"),
> macros will run seamlessly because that's what that "Trust all installed
> add-ins and templates" does, it tells Word to trust the templates in those
> folders (As well as the Start-up folder, but this is for add-ins and global
> templates).
>
> --
>
> Salut!
> _______________________________________
> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
>
>
>

david
Tue May 29 09:17:02 CDT 2007

Miriam and Jean-Guy:

Just to follow up, here's the article on self-certification:

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=194

Bear
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Windows XP, Word 2000