I wrote a Microsoft Word Macro on a Macintosh, and then copied the
Template to a Windows 98 computer running Word 2000.

When I try to use the macros on the Windows 98 computer, I get an
error message saying that this macro has been inactivated because of
my security settings. How can I run the macro?

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Clarification of Question by jpalme-ga on 10 May 2003 08:22 PDT

Now I tried on another computer,which had Windows 2000 installed. It
claimed that something was wrong with my macro, even though the macro
worked correctly with Windows 2001 on a Macintosh.

The Template can be found at
http://web4health.info/Templates/w4h-word-template.dot
In this template, none of the macros seem to work on a Windows
computer.

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Request for Question Clarification by answerguru-ga on 10 May 2003 08:32 PDT

Hi jpalme-ga,

You should be able to resolve this by doing either of the following:

"To get around the macro security settings, we have a few options.

1) Change the macro security settings.

2) Sign our macro template/document with a digital certificate."

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=6k8F4.15526%243g5.1753872%40tw11.nn.bcandid.com&rnum=14&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26q%3Dword%2Bmacro%2Bsecurity

How do you change your macro security settings?

1. Within Word, go to the Tools > Macro > Security
2. By changing the security level to either "medium" or "low", your
macros will not be automatically disabled.

I have tried your template on my own system, where the macro security
level is to medium. I received a prompt telling me that macros exist
in this template and asked me if I would like to enable/disable them.
I selected enable and the document came up as expected. I am using
Word 2002 - there is little distinction between this and Word 2000 as
far as macros are concerned.

Since I'm not sure if you've already tried this, I am posting it as a
clarification. Please let me know if this resolves your problem and I
will post it as an official answer.

Cheers!

answerguru-ga

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Clarification of Question by jpalme-ga on 11 May 2003 04:28 PDT

Thank you, that worked! I will tell my users to set their Word
security level to "medium", then they will be able to use my macros!

My problem is thus solved!

Hi jpalme-ga, 

I have posted my clarification as an answer below :)

You should be able to resolve this by doing either of the following: 
 
"To get around the macro security settings, we have a few options. 
 
1) Change the macro security settings. 
 
2) Sign our macro template/document with a digital certificate." 
 
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=6k8F4.15526%243g5.1753872%40tw11.nn.bcandid.com&rnum=14&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26q%3Dword%2Bmacro%2Bsecurity
 
How do you change your macro security settings? 
 
1. Within Word, go to the Tools > Macro > Security 
2. By changing the security level to either "medium" or "low", your
macros will not be automatically disabled.
 
I have tried your template on my own system, where the macro security
level is to medium. I received a prompt telling me that macros exist
in this template and asked me if I would like to enable/disable them.
I selected enable and the document came up as expected. I am using
Word 2002 - there is little distinction between this and Word 2000 as
far as macros are concerned.

 
Cheers! 
 
answerguru-ga