How to install MS Word with out macro language capabilities ...

I wonder how you could do something like that.
.
I don't mean disabling it or not letting certain users use it, but
actually not installing this functionality at all
.
lbrtchx

Buckland
Thu Nov 30 22:27:04 CST 2006

Hi Librtchx,

It is possible to do a custom installation of Office to not include VBA capabilities. This has often turned out to be a bit
problematic in real life though.

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>><lbrtchx@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1164943451.338478.29950@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...
I wonder how you could do something like that.
.
I don't mean disabling it or not letting certain users use it, but
actually not installing this functionality at all
.
lbrtchx <<
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MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

RajKohli
Thu Nov 30 22:42:00 CST 2006

Maybe this can be done in Office XP installation. Not sure about other
version. Read the following article.

Q: Can I avoid macro viruses altogether by installing Office without Visual
Basic for Applications?

A: In response to customer requests, Microsoft has designed Office XP so
that it can be installed without Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which
can be appropriated by malicious macro viruses. In the Custom Installation
Wizard, VBA appears in the feature tree on the Set Feature Installation
States page. To deploy Office without VBA, you set the installation state to
Not Available or Not Available, Hidden, Locked.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/orkXP/HA011365091033.aspx

Hope this information helps you, let us know!

"lbrtchx@hotmail.com" wrote:

> I wonder how you could do something like that.
> ..
> I don't mean disabling it or not letting certain users use it, but
> actually not installing this functionality at all
> ..
> lbrtchx
>
>

Howard
Thu Nov 30 23:18:00 CST 2006

I agree with Bob.
It is pointless.
Access will then not work, and some 3rd party apps won't work.

Proper solution is to run a good Auntie Virus program and TRAIN the folkes
that use the computer to, e.g., NOT open attachments from unknown sources.

lbrtchx
Fri Dec 01 00:06:14 CST 2006

..., but as I understand things. VBA for Word and Access (the objects
relating to the Documents not the ones relating to the database tables,
queries, etc ...) are not exactly the same.
.
OK let me ask another question them, can you make Word only process
and save RTF files?
.
I would even install Windows + MS office twice one with and the other
without automation
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lbrtchx

Jezebel
Fri Dec 01 01:18:44 CST 2006


<lbrtchx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1164953174.097928.60690@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> ..., but as I understand things. VBA for Word and Access (the objects
> relating to the Documents not the ones relating to the database tables,
> queries, etc ...) are not exactly the same.

VBA is exactly the same. The subject object models are different of course;
but there's only one VBA.


> .
> OK let me ask another question them, can you make Word only process
> and save RTF files?

No. Using VBA(!) you can constrain some operations (such as intercepting the
Open and Save commands, to force the file types); but users can bypass those
sorts of restrictions very easily. And if you try to tell Word users that
they can't open or save Word documents ... all you'll do is acquire a
reputation as the quintessential IT moron who doesn't visit the real world.

As Howard says, train the buggers. Or just ask nicely.

Karl
Fri Dec 01 12:00:55 CST 2006

lbrtchx@hotmail.com wrote:
> I wonder how you could do something like that.
> .
> I don't mean disabling it or not letting certain users use it, but
> actually not installing this functionality at all

http://www.openoffice.org <-- problem solved!
--
Working without a .NET?
http://classicvb.org/

lbrtchx
Fri Dec 01 12:51:19 CST 2006

> http://www.openoffice.org <-- problem solved!
Well, not exactly. I tried and liked the openoffice suite, but
something as simple as taking a web page section and pasting it onto a
document and then open it using MS Word some other place would create
lots of problems with page numbers, embeded links and many other
etceteras.
.
lbrtchx

Karl
Fri Dec 01 12:57:14 CST 2006

lbrtchx@hotmail.com wrote:
>> http://www.openoffice.org <-- problem solved!
>
> Well, not exactly.

Sorry if the <TIC> was too nuanced...
--
Working without a .NET?
http://classicvb.org/

Howard
Fri Dec 01 15:17:49 CST 2006

<lbrtchx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1164953174.097928.60690@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> OK let me ask another question them, can you make Word only process
> and save RTF files?

One could write macros to not allow anything but RTF to be used.
But what's the point?

Howard
Fri Dec 01 15:19:21 CST 2006

"Jezebel" <warcrimes@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
news:O6cGxjRFHHA.5000@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> No. Using VBA(!) you can constrain some operations (such as intercepting
the
> Open and Save commands, to force the file types); but users can bypass
those
> sorts of restrictions very easily. And if you try to tell Word users that
> they can't open or save Word documents ... all you'll do is acquire a
> reputation as the quintessential IT moron who doesn't visit the real
world.
>
> As Howard says, train the buggers. Or just ask nicely.

Electric shock might work?