Word certificate replacement ?

[THA]

Hi.

In my company we had a lot of templates in word where some of the macros
used was digitally signed with our company certificate.

This certificate expired in Nov. 2004 and as our company was bought by
another the certificate was not renewed.

However since then people who attempt to edit the old documents created on
the template with the expired certificate are finding themselfes unable to
either open the document or they only get a read only version.

Question is how we handle this the easiest way ?

Can we remove the existing certificate from the template (if so, how ?) and
will this be reflected in the documents derived from that template (they ask
for it by name) ?

or will we have to renew our certificate containing the now incorrect
company name ?

Thanks..
Thomas

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?VEhB?=,

Can we remove the existing certificate from the template (if so, how ?) and
will this be reflected in the documents derived from that template (they ask
for it by name) ?

Open the template in Word, then go to the VB Editor (Alt+F11). The signature
management is in the Tools menu; I'm looking at Word 2003, where it's a menu
entry in the first level of the menu. In the dialog box you can select the
signature and click "Remove".

this should propagate to the documents, as they'd be linked to the VBA code via
the template. None of it should be in the documents, themselves.

If the documents don't NEED the template, once they've been created, you can
attach them to the Normal.dot template, instead. Tools/Templates and Addins.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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