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cheryl - 30 Mar 2007 11:24 GMT

im making a presentation that will be used in schools and it contains macros,
everytime the user opens the presentation a warning comes up saying 'this
presentation contains macros' and they have to click on enable all macros.
Is there a way of stoopping this message from popping up and making the
presentation always have macros enabled?

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Chirag - 30 Mar 2007 12:39 GMT

Select "Tools" | "Macro" | "Security..." menu item, select "Low" choice on
the "Security Level" tab, click OK. Restart PowerPoint. Now you won't get
the macro warning when you open presentations with macros in it. Make sure
that you read the warning associated with the "Low" choice, though.

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> im making a presentation that will be used in schools and it contains
> macros,
> everytime the user opens the presentation a warning comes up saying 'this
> presentation contains macros' and they have to click on enable all macros.
> Is there a way of stoopping this message from popping up and making the
> presentation always have macros enabled?

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cheryl - 30 Mar 2007 13:12 GMT

cool thankyou. what about if someone views it on a different computer? is
there a way of making it never pop up on any computer or will each time its
put on a new computer the user will have to change the macro security?

> Select "Tools" | "Macro" | "Security..." menu item, select "Low" choice on
> the "Security Level" tab, click OK. Restart PowerPoint. Now you won't get
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> > Is there a way of stoopping this message from popping up and making the
> > presentation always have macros enabled?

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Echo S - 30 Mar 2007 15:40 GMT

They'll have to change it on each system.

Otherwise it would defeat the purpose -- even though you're honest, that
doesn't mean everyone creating a macro is...

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> cool thankyou. what about if someone views it on a different computer? is
> there a way of making it never pop up on any computer or will each time
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>> > Is there a way of stoopping this message from popping up and making the
>> > presentation always have macros enabled?

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Steve Rindsberg - 31 Mar 2007 01:09 GMT

> cool thankyou. what about if someone views it on a different computer? is
> there a way of making it never pop up on any computer or will each time its
> put on a new computer the user will have to change the macro security?

No. Each user or computer admin will have to make the decision of whether to
run the risk of allowing macros to run w/o warning.

Why? Because someone could pretty easily write a macro that'd wipe out nearly
every file on your computer, all because you clicked a button in a PPT show.
This isn't something you want to allow.

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