Annoying Macro Error Message

[Toni]

Outlook 2003 has all the sudden started popping up with an
error message every time I try to create a new mail
message that says "Microsoft Visual Basic: The macros in
this project are disabled. Please refer to the online help
or documentation of the host application to determine how
to enable macros." Seeing as how I never even use macros
and have neither enabled nor disabled them at any given
time, I am not sure how to fix this. I have tried going
into Visual Basic to shut it off, I have gone through
every macro setting there is, in both Outlook and Word,
and I have tried every security setting there is. The help
guide only tells you how to create and manage macros, not
how to troubleshoot them. Does anyone know how to fix
this? It is very annoying.

Thanks!!!

Toni

 

[EHPorter]

I have run into this as well, and it took me quite a bit of time to figure
it out.

In my case, a program had placed a template file in my office startup
folder. In my case, the offending program was Symantec's Winfax. The
program failed some sort of internal security check when it tried to load
(anything in the office startup folder will load when an office program is
started). I just removed the offending program and the error message went
away.

 

[Guest]

I went and looked in my start up folder, and lo and
behold - Adobe had installed a PDF Maker macro there! I
deleted it and restarted the program, and that solved it!
Thanks so much! I never would have found that on my own.

Toni

 

[EHPorter]

Glad it worked. I also ran into this problem with the PDF Maker macro.

I recall that there was a way to keep the macro by telling Office to "trust
all macros from this source." I don't however recall the details -- and if
you don't need the macro, deleting it is probably just as easy.

In a single user environment, you can also set macro security to LOW. But,
of course, that has its own set of potential disadvantages.