Word macro issue

[David French]

I have a user that is getting the message box to enable or disable macros
every time Word is opened.
The thing is there are no macros in any documents that I can find.

Anyone have an idea?

Could this be some kind of spyware or somthing along those lines?

This is a fairly new computer (< 6 months).
Windows XP Pro
Office XP

Dave French

 

[Charles Kenyon]

This is an Add-In from some other software you've installed. Under macro
security, check the box to trust installed templates and add-ins and the
message will go away. If you want to see what the file is, look at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Jay Freedman]

Checking the trust box "may" make the problem go away -- but that alone may
not be enough.

Word has two Startup folders that global add-ins may live in. Only the one
at C:\Documents and Settings\<your name>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup (or equivalent, depending on how the program was
installed) is a "trusted location". The other one, C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup, is NOT trusted.

Some programs, notably WinFax, stick their add-ins in the untrusted Startup
because it's easy to find during setup. They don't seem to know or care that
their customers are plagued by these mysterious security warnings.

If you find any templates in the untrusted Startup, you can move them to the
trusted one. Then, after checking the box you won't see the message any
more. If the culprit is indeed WinFax, you can simply delete the add-in and
use the FaxPrint macro from http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm instead.