Enabling macros??????

[kathys321]

Help!

I have just downloaded MS Office Professional 2003 and now get a pop up message every time I open or close a word doc. It says: "The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to the online help or documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

I've been searching the MS help and other sites but can't find anything about this. I'm far from a computer whiz and need some help (in plain English, please!) about how to go about this to stop these annoying pop up messages.

Thank you,
Kathy

[paul9]

the macros are disabled to help prevent damage caused by macro viruses. be sure you actually need them enabled before doing so. next, scan all your office documents with an anti virus. now, open your office application, load in the file you want to work on and select the help feature in office itself. type something such as enabling macros into the search box and see what comes up.

[paul9]

for just disabling the warning messages, try looking in the office preferences menu...
i think i may have gotten the wrong idea of what you wanted on my first read of your posting.

[kathys321]

Thank you, paul9, for your input. Since I don't even know what a macro is, I doubt that I need them. Just getting rid of the pop up warning would be fine. I couldn't find a preferences category in the menus.....tried the help search but haven't found the right place yet. Any suggestions of where I should look? I told you I'm far from a computer genius! :-)

Kathy

[gromo]

Here's the fix: (I had the same problem for a long time and finally resolved it)
Open up MS Word (and get past the error message)
Go to Tools->Macro->Security
Change it to Medium and hit OK
Exit out of MS Word
Open it up again
You will have a different error message now
Select "More Info"
Make note of the path of the file causing the error
(Mine was in my c:/program files/microsoft office/startup folder and was a ".dot" file type)
Close MS Word
Go to that file location and delete the file (or if you dont want to delete it, you can rename the extension from ".dot" to ".dotOther" or whatever you want)
Open MS Word
Go to Tools->Macro->Security
Change it back to High and hit ok

-This should do it - let me know if it doesnt.
Gromo

[kimgrr]

Originally Posted by gromo

Here's the fix: (I had the same problem for a long time and finally resolved it)
Open up MS Word (and get past the error message)
Go to Tools->Macro->Security
Change it to Medium and hit OK
Exit out of MS Word
Open it up again
You will have a different error message now
Select "More Info"
Make note of the path of the file causing the error
(Mine was in my c:/program files/microsoft office/startup folder and was a ".dot" file type)
Close MS Word
Go to that file location and delete the file (or if you dont want to delete it, you can rename the extension from ".dot" to ".dotOther" or whatever you want)
Open MS Word
Go to Tools->Macro->Security
Change it back to High and hit ok

-This should do it - let me know if it doesnt.
Gromo

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Its been driving us crazy that stupid message and now its gone. From one little file back from 1997!