macros lost in Word

[Guest]

Hi! I have uploaded word documents in Share Point. These documents contains
macros but every time my team accesses these files the macros are no longer
in there. What do you think is wrong?

Thanks.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Documents cannot normally contain macros. You saved the macros to a
template: you need to make that available to each user.

When users retrieve documents from a webserver, they get a fresh copy of the
document on their desktop. The document needs to be attached to a template
which needs to be in the user's local User Template Location or in the
user's Workgroup Template Location. Look in Word under Tools>Options>File
Locations to see where those locations are.

Hi! I have uploaded word documents in Share Point. These documents contains
macros but every time my team accesses these files the macros are no longer
in there. What do you think is wrong?

Thanks.

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Technical Writer.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In recent versions of Word, documents can indeed contain macros (the reason
for all the new security precautions in mail clients to prevent you from
opening Word documents incautiously), but, depending on your security
settings, you may not be able to open a document with macros enabled (and
most prudent users *won't* enable macros when given a choice). So indeed the
macros should *properly* be saved in templates.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Yeah: I chose to ignore that distinction because in a corporate
(SharePoint) setting, there is no way in the wide world that the system
administrator should permit macros in "documents" retrieved from a web
server to run -- even if it IS their own web server

So while it is possible to put macros in "documents", if the users manage to
run them, the installation has larger problems than macros not working

In recent versions of Word, documents can indeed contain macros (the reason
for all the new security precautions in mail clients to prevent you from
opening Word documents incautiously), but, depending on your security
settings, you may not be able to open a document with macros enabled (and
most prudent users *won't* enable macros when given a choice). So indeed the
macros should *properly* be saved in templates.

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Guest]

Hi John and Suzanne. Thank you both for the insights.

Yeah: I chose to ignore that distinction because in a corporate
(SharePoint) setting, there is no way in the wide world that the system
administrator should permit macros in "documents" retrieved from a web
server to run -- even if it IS their own web server

So while it is possible to put macros in "documents", if the users manage to
run them, the installation has larger problems than macros not working

In recent versions of Word, documents can indeed contain macros (the reason
for all the new security precautions in mail clients to prevent you from
opening Word documents incautiously), but, depending on your security
settings, you may not be able to open a document with macros enabled (and
most prudent users *won't* enable macros when given a choice). So indeed the
macros should *properly* be saved in templates.

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Cindy M.]

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I have uploaded word documents in Share Point. These documents contains
macros but every time my team accesses these files the macros are no longer
in there. What do you think is wrong?

You need to ask this in a Sharepoint group.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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