NEW CONFIRMATION SCREEN

[Craig Bender]

I have a couple dozen of Mail-Merge documents, which were created in Word
2000. Each of the documents have a macro in them that cause the document to
Merge and then print and close Word. However, when executed from Word 2003
there seems to be a new confirmation screen that pops up each time. The
message box says "Opening this document will run the following SQL command:
SELECT * FROM 'C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt' "

The only crumb of info I've been able to find out is this may be another "MS
commitment to security", which this box will always come up unless some
registry setting is modified. This is extremely annoying! Does anyone know
any details about this?

Other info that might be helpful is: All my documents are set to a header
source "'C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt"; the "C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt" is
generate new each time for fresh data. Both are pipe-delimited.

Regards,
Craig.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Craig,

I have a couple dozen of Mail-Merge documents, which were created in Word
2000. Each of the documents have a macro in them that cause the document to
Merge and then print and close Word. However, when executed from Word 2003
there seems to be a new confirmation screen that pops up each time. The
message box says "Opening this document will run the following SQL command:
SELECT * FROM 'C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt' "

Yes, this is a new security measure, that has been discussed in this group
already numerous times. See the following Knowledge Base article:

"Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a
Word Document - 825765
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825765

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Craig Bender]

I would imagine this topic has been discussed, but I didn't see any messages
about it in this group. But I've only just subscribed--Sorry.

Is there any good Microsoft articles talking about this "security measure".
Not necessarily, the fix or work-around but an official article that states
it exist?

And lastly, the 825765 articles states "you may receive the following
message". The "you may" confuses me---Is there some sort of proper steps to
do so that I don't receive that message, besides registry edits?

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Craig,

Is there any good Microsoft articles talking about this "security measure".
Not necessarily, the fix or work-around but an official article that states
it exist?

Not that I know of, for sure. there is a "white paper" that discusses Office
security; I've not read it through in detail, but I don't *recall* any mention
of this. I saw it on Technet; not sure if you can find it on microsoft.com
(there's no article number to search on).

"Microsoft Office 2003 Security Whitepaper"

And lastly, the 825765 articles states "you may receive the following
message". The "you may" confuses me---Is there some sort of proper steps to
do so that I don't receive that message, besides registry edits?

Nope. With the exception of not saving a data source with the document.

There are lots of nit-pickers in this world, who will jump on someone
(Microsoft) in a flash if anything they publicize isn't 100% accurate. They're
just covering the possible case that someone won't get the message... (I've
never known it to happen, but with software, who can be 100% sure?)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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