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Tarallen - 06 Nov 2006 21:29 GMT

Hello,

I am learning about macros and have created a couple and placed them in my
toolbar. When I try to run them, however, I get a message saying "The macro
cannot be found or has been disabled because of your Macro Security Settings"

My security settings are set to "Medium" and I don't want to go to "Low"
because it says it's not recommended.

Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Tara

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Tony Jollans - 07 Nov 2006 15:33 GMT

Where have you put the macros - and how have you added them to your toolbar?

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Tarallen - 07 Nov 2006 15:52 GMT

I put the macros in a special toolbar that I created for myself and added to
the Normal.dot. I added them by recording them, and then dragging them on to
the toolbar. I used the organizer to copy the toolbar to Normal.dot. But even
when it was just in my document, it still wouldn't run. In fact, since then I
have experimented and no macros will run on my machine. I get the same error
message each time. I set the security settings to low and it made no
difference.

Thanks, in advance, for any help,
Tara

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Tony Jollans - 07 Nov 2006 16:50 GMT

OK - I'm officially confused :-)

You recorded some macros and saved them in Normal.dot. Can you run those
macros from the list under Tools > Macro > Macros (Alt+F8)?

You created a toolbar via Tools > Customize (?) and dragged your macros from
the list to the toolbar. What did you then do - or need to do - with the
Organizer?

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Tarallen - 07 Nov 2006 17:05 GMT

Tony - I'm not sure I understand your questions. I don't know what you mean
when you ask what I did with the organizer.

The bottom line is that I can't run the macros either from the menu (tools -
Macro - Macros) or the toolbar into which I dragged the macros.

If it's not this simple and there is still confusion, can we discuss live?

Thanks for trying to help me,
Sincerely,
Tara

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Tony Jollans - 07 Nov 2006 19:57 GMT

Hi Tara,

I can't recreate what you have done and I was trying to ascertain if there
was something particular that may have been significant. If, however, you
can't run the macros from the Tools menu then the problem is nothing to do
with the toolbar.

I can't think of anything that would stop a macro running - at least not
anything you could do by simply recording a macro. If you have security set
to low (you have restarted Word after changing the setting,haven't you?) the
implication is that the macro(s) can't be found but if that were the case
they wouldn't be in the list under Alt+F8.

Sorry. maybe someone else knows more.

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Tony

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Tarallen - 07 Nov 2006 20:38 GMT

I understand Tony. Sorry if I sounded a bit frustrated. Thanks for trying to
help.

Sincerely,
Tara

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