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Having updated to WinXP Pro from WinME, I have now upgraded Office 2000 Pro to O XP Pro, however I am having problems anytime I open new or existing documents. I get a Microsoft Visual Basic Error "The macros in this project are disabled etc".

I have uninstalled/reinstalled ticked boxes and all the necessary to allow VB to work but it makes no difference, despite the fact that it has been set to run from PC I am still getting this, it is frustrating the heck out of me.

Has anyone got a solution, FWIW I have rebooted numerous time, deleted all old templates and all other stuff relating to the old version, I have put it all back since it made no difference

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That is by default, its to stop macro virus.

If you go to the Tools|Macro|Security menu and change it to 'Low' what happens?

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Yes it will leave you vunerable to marco virus. Set it to medium and see what happens.

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Yup I tried medium but it came up with the enable macros warning, is there a way around it without leaving myself open to virus's, how have you for example got it working ok

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I don't have any problems with that. My documents don't have any macros in them so I don't get the warning. I do have it set on medium so that I am prompted whether or not to run the macros.

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The really strange thing is I have never created or done anything with macros in my life so I haven't got a clue how this all came about, even opening blank docs in word etc bring up the warning

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I had the same issue after installing SP1

I think for security reasons the SP does the set to medium.

If you have a recent anti virus (sophos is good) just set it to low.

The typical M$ idea: if we disable it completely it won't hurt , lol

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I haven't been able to install the SP1 keeps erroring out during install, I wonder if that has something to do with it.

Well anyway is there a way I can clear these non existent macros from my system maybe if I can do that then I will be able to set it to medium, to give myself at least a bit of extra protection from macro virus's

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Sorry to be a pain but I have searched real thoroughly but still cant find anything on that, is there a chance you could give me a link for it

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I couldn't do a search on here as it kept coming up too busy but thanks to the reference to slipstreaming I have managed to find something through Google and install the sp1 etc, mind you it hasn't resolved the issue with the macros, but at least I can set them to low and work without the pesky errors.

Thanks for your help guys

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hehhe ya, i posted some instructions on how to slipstrem SP1 to an admin sintall point, and also posted a batch file i made to do this for you sometime last year... but now i've lost all my notes :(. There is also a way to update the CD's .msi files directly from the service pack... does anyone remember? its uses MSIEXEC...

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lfh.. Keldyn posted how to do the SP1 Slipstream CD and it was sticky but for some reason it isnt anymore.

anyways, try this URL (because the Search is giving me server busy msg's too..grrr)

http://www.viperlair.com/articles/guides/o...p1/offxpsp1.htm

you'll need a cd burner to complete this because you'll need to reburn the CD but once you do, you'll always be able to update to newer SP's without problem

edit: ahh its still sticky except its in the WinXP forum..

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=20114

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ya i remember this now (and i found my batch file) :) but what i was saying is there IS a method that you can use so you can patch to CD contents itself. where there is no need to build an admin install point (which btw does not fit on a single CD with all the rest of the office stuff), or enter a CD key... i've seen it posted here before in that same old thread...anyone? edit: this was not the thread i was talking about...

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