stevenleek
Wed Aug 11 09:50:56 CDT 2004
Jay -
That's exactly what the problem is... Many thanks for your help..
Steve
"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<ew7UNrvfEHA.904@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> Hi Steve,
>
> Most likely, the other users have their macro security level set to High,
> which silently disables macros and Toolbox controls and leaves them in
> design mode (which disables some menu options).
>
> I don't think you can do anything about this from your end, except to
> instruct users to set their security level to Medium (Tools > Macro >
> Security) and click the Enable button in the dialog that will then appear
> when they open the document.
>
> If I recall correctly, Word 2000 can let you sign VBA code with a digital
> signature, but not the whole document as you can in Word 2003. And even if
> you could sign the whole document, I think the Toolbox controls (which are
> ActiveX) are marked 'not safe for scripting' and would still trigger the
> macro warning.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org
>
> Steve L wrote:
> > I have created a form in Word 2000. I have used the controls from the
> > Control Toolbox and not the Forms toolbox, because I want to write
> > some VBA code to fill combo boxes dependent on the choices the user
> > has made in previous combo boxes. This all works quite nicely until
> > someone other than myself opens the document. Then, the combo boxes
> > drop down completely blank and my code isn't getting executed at all.
> > Also, the user's see a lot of menu options greyed out e.g.
> > Protect/Unprotect.
> > It's probably something obvious I'm missing but I can't see anything
> > like this in the newsgroups. Any help/advice appreciated.