Upgraded to 2003 - Error Messages?!

[Roger Tregelles]

Hi Folks,

My IT department just upgraded my PC from Office 2002 to Office 2003. Now,
everytime I open one of my databases that I had created in Access 2002
(shared databases - Front end on my PC, Backend on the Network) I get the
following messages.

Security Warning: Unsafe expressions are not blocked
Do you want to block unsafe expressions?

I click on Yes and then was informed I needed to shutdown Access and restart
it. Once I did this the message went away for this database. I assume I will
need to do this for all of my databases created in Access 2002. Am I right
in telling Access to block these potentially unsafe expressions?

Now I get another message that says as follows:

Security Warning
This file might not be safe if it contains code that was intended to harm
your computer.
Do you want to open this file or cancel this operation?

I click on Open and it opens the file, but I need to do this every time I
open the database. How do I shut off this message? Is there anywhere I can
go to find out more about the main differences between Access 2002 and
Access 2003 and what you need to do with files created in the previous
versions? Also, are databases saved and or created in Access 2003 backward
compatible with Access 2002? Any help, direction and guidance would be
greatly appreciated.

Roger Tregelles
Respironics Inc.
Quality Engineer

 

[Ben]

This is a feature to prevent macro or scripts to harm anything. To turn it
off go to "Tools -> Macro -> Security" and set the option to low. That
should take it away. This is for the MS Access 2003. Maybe it is the same
with the rest of the Office tools.