Office MAC 2004 startup message

[David McCallum]

When I click on a Word or Excel document in MAC Office 2004 I get a
warning message stating the document is about to be opened by Word or
Excel. I used to be able to just click on the file and the application
would open right away. The files I am clicking on were create in the
same version of Office. Any suggetions???

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

When I click on a Word or Excel document in MAC Office 2004 I get a
warning message stating the document is about to be opened by Word or
Excel. I used to be able to just click on the file and the application
would open right away. The files I am clicking on were create in the
same version of Office. Any suggetions???

As far as I've understood, that's one fo the "improvements" of one of the
latest security updates for the System. I understand the point, but I find
this rather intruding :-(
I get that with many other apps (and http links). :-<

Corentin

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

As far as I've understood, that's one fo the "improvements" of one of the
latest security updates for the System. I understand the point, but I find
this rather intruding :-(
I get that with many other apps (and http links). :-<

I never get this warning. I wonder what determines it.

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.

 

[Adam Bailey]

I never get this warning. I wonder what determines it.

I got it the first time I opened Word and Excel documents from the Finder.
Since then, I've never seen it again.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I got it the first time I opened Word and Excel documents from the Finder.
Since then, I've never seen it again.

I see it again from time to time. I am really getting tired of seing it :-\

Corentin

 

[Mickey Stevens]

I got it the first time I opened Word and Excel documents from the Finder.
Since then, I've never seen it again.

I saw this last week when I tried opening an Excel file on my old iMac. I
had never seen the dialog before; Corentin told me later that it was a new
security feature. I think that occurred shortly after I applied the Office
2004 SP1 update.

When I installed Office 2004 on the new iMac, I got the same message the
first time.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I saw this last week when I tried opening an Excel file on my old iMac. I
had never seen the dialog before; Corentin told me later that it was a new
security feature. I think that occurred shortly after I applied the Office
2004 SP1 update.

When I installed Office 2004 on the new iMac, I got the same message the
first time.

I don't recall getting this message with Office, but I just installed
Acrobat and got a message about "opening this file will require you to
launch acrobat for the first time. Do you really want to?" and then again
on launching Acrobat after updating it. Sounds like it's the same thing.

DM

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I don't recall getting this message with Office, but I just installed
Acrobat and got a message about "opening this file will require you to
launch acrobat for the first time. Do you really want to?" and then again
on launching Acrobat after updating it.
Likewise.

Sounds like it's the same thing.

Yes. It must be an OS 10.3 security check on new applications. Just in case
you ever got a virus program disguised as a document or as something else,
this should alert you. If it's an application you do in fact wish to run,
just click OK.


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