aggravating security warning

[cherold]

Hi folks. A friend of mine who knows almost nothing about computers
was asked to create a contact list. She'd been told to use excel,
which she didn't know how to use and which I don't know how to use, so
I suggested she just use Access, since I could easily set everything up
for her. So I created a contact list and emailed it to her. But when
she tries to use it she gets a security warning that it "contains code
that was intended to harm your computer." I've been googling around on
this but I'm having trouble finding a good solution. The problem is
this needs to work on two computers of two people who barely understand
computers, and possibly other computers. The easiest solution seems to
be to just set security to low, which of course is highly not
recommended but is something these people could do (with help). I've
also seen solutions like create a VBS script to open the particular
files without security, but for that there would have to be a different
script for each file (there are three) with the complete path of the
file, and that's bound to get messy. Ideally I want something simple
that I can explain to these people that they can handle so they quit
asking for my help.

If you're wondering how my friend who knows nothing about computers
wound up being asked to create this, well, it wasn't in the job
description and they didn't ask her about her computer skills at all.
But she'd rather not be fired.

 

[Joan Wild]

I would tell them to set macro security to low. It's not any less secure
than running previous versions of Access.