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skids89@gmail.com - 15 Apr 2006 05:35 GMT

i recently created a macro for fun and out of ignorance that mimics a
virus it is an autoexec in word it ends the program when you end the
macro how do i find the file to delete the macro or do i have to delete
and reinstall word

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Charles Kenyon - 15 Apr 2006 05:45 GMT

I'm tempted to just keep quiet and let you spend more time learning.

With Word closed, try finding and renaming the normal.dot file to
normalold.dot.
Recorded macros are stored in normal.dot by default.

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>i recently created a macro for fun and out of ignorance that mimics a
> virus it is an autoexec in word it ends the program when you end the
> macro how do i find the file to delete the macro or do i have to delete
> and reinstall word

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Jezebel - 15 Apr 2006 07:57 GMT

Switch to VBA. In the Project pane (top-left) expand normal.dot to display
its modules. If you have no macros that you want to keep, delete the
module(s) entirely. Otherwise, double click the module to display its
contents, search the contents for the code you don't want, select and
delete.

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