Macros disabled warning in MS Word doc with no macros

[Earthman]

Running MS Office Pro 2007 on XP Pro notebook. MS Word document saved as MS
Word 2003 for the benefit of associates.

When I open a particular document, I get "Security Warning: Macros have been
disabled." This particular document used to have macros, which I wrote to
facilitate some actions, but I deleted them so that associates didn't need to
deal with the warnings. The macros were deleted using the VBA editor window.

Although the macros have been deleted, I still get the warning. Is there
still some remnant of the macros? Where would the remnant be? Is there a
way to clear this up?

Thanks...

 

[Lene Fredborg]

Some macro storage components may have been left over.

Try this:
Select Save As and select “Rich Text Forrmat (*.rtf)†from the Save as type
list.
Now your active document is the RTF-file.
Select Save As again. This time, select “Word Document (*.doc)†from the
Save as type list (accept to replace existing file).

You may need to close and reopen the file in between the Save As operations
– however, in my test, it works without doing so.

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Regards
Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

 

[Jay Freedman]

For future reference, when working in Word 2007 you can save the
original document as a *.docx file instead of a *.rtf file, then open
that .docx and save as *.doc. That will also clear out any remaining
macro components.

I don't think there's any practical difference between *.rtf and
*.docx for this purpose. It's just another path to the same result.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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