How do I enable macros in Word 2002?

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Sargis

Hi,

Whenever I start or close the word application, the
follwoing message from Microsoft Visual Basic appears:
"The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to
the online help or documentation of the host application
to determine how to enable macros." After I click OK, the
application starts.

I couldn't find any help where the message is suggesing I
should look!

I would appreciate a solution in simple easy to follow
steps, since I'm not a computer wiz.

Thanks

Sargis
 
Sargis,

Out of the box Word Macro Security is set to high. This
is the cause of your message.

Tools>Macros>Security will open the dialog box to set your
preferred security level. I use Medium with "Trust All
Installed Addins and Templates" checked on the trusted
sources tab.
 
Did you use Word's "Type a question for help" box to type "enable macros"?
When I do that, the first topic listed is "Macro language support is
disabled." This article contains the information you need.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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-----Original Message-----
Did you use Word's "Type a question for help" box to type "enable macros"?
When I do that, the first topic listed is "Macro language support is
disabled." This article contains the information you need.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.



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Greg & Suzanne,

Thank you for your response. However none of those have
solve the problem.

Greg: Changing the security level replaces one message
with another one. The new message is asking whether you
want to Enable, Disable macros or cancel.

Suzanne: I did use the "type a question for help" box,
but there was no such item as "Macro language Support is
Disabled". Howevere, if this is the solution, How do I
enable macros language support?

I need to mention that the message in question wasn't
always there. One day when I started the Word, it just
appeared. I don't think I have made any changes to Word
settings, at least not intentionally.

Thanks

Sargis
 
If you set the security to Medium (Tools | Macro | Security), then you will
get a message allowing you to enable the macros. If you're getting the
message when you start Word, then you have add-ins in Word's (or the Office)
Startup folder that are trying to run macros. If you check the box for
"Trust all installed templates and add-ins" on the Trusted Sources tab, then
all the templates in your user and workgroup templates folders and all
global templates and add-ins in Word's Startup folder will be trusted, and
you will not get a message. Unfortunately, this trust does not extend to the
Office Startup folder, but the message should also give you the option to
"Always trust macros from <whoever>," which will solve that problem.

It's always a good idea, however, to be aware of what templates and add-ins
are loaded when you start Word. Some of them contain macros that, while not
malicious, are poorly written. They may dirty Normal.dot so that you are
prompted to save it every time you quit Word. Or they may have been written
for an earlier version of Word and not work very well in the current one.
Any add-ins that don't work correctly or that you don't really need should
be eliminated.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.
 
-----Original Message-----
If you set the security to Medium (Tools | Macro | Security), then you will
get a message allowing you to enable the macros. If you're getting the
message when you start Word, then you have add-ins in Word's (or the Office)
Startup folder that are trying to run macros. If you check the box for
"Trust all installed templates and add-ins" on the Trusted Sources tab, then
all the templates in your user and workgroup templates folders and all
global templates and add-ins in Word's Startup folder will be trusted, and
you will not get a message. Unfortunately, this trust does not extend to the
Office Startup folder, but the message should also give you the option to
"Always trust macros from <whoever>," which will solve that problem.

It's always a good idea, however, to be aware of what templates and add-ins
are loaded when you start Word. Some of them contain macros that, while not
malicious, are poorly written. They may dirty Normal.dot so that you are
prompted to save it every time you quit Word. Or they may have been written
for an earlier version of Word and not work very well in the current one.
Any add-ins that don't work correctly or that you don't really need should
be eliminated.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
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I finally got rid of the message.
When I set the macros security level to medium, the
message that was asking me to enable or disable macros
was for a file in the Microsoft Startup folder called
WFWRD2K2.DOT. Once I deleted that file, the message
stopped.
I don't even know what file this is, and I hope I havn't
messed up other things by fixing this problem!
 
WFWRD2K2.DOT is for Symantec WinFax Pro. It enables you to send a fax
from Word.
 
As 'Garfield-n-odie' indicates this is the Winfax add-in. You could have
told Word to trust installed templates and add-ins, but as this particular
add-in is frequently problematic, removing it is no bad thing. You can still
send faxes from Word by printing to the Winfax driver. A macro makes this
even simpler -

Sub FaxPrint()
Dim sCurrentPrinter As String
sCurrentPrinter = ActivePrinter
ActivePrinter = "Winfax"
Application.PrintOut FileName:=""
ActivePrinter = sCurrentPrinter
End Sub

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