Under WinXP Pro a Working (WinFax) Macro Suddenly Fails to Work in Word XP/2002

[AA Smith]

I have used various versions WinFax Pro and Microsoft Word for over ten
years. I have never had trouble with the WinFax Macro for Word until today.

Now, when I try to fax a document from Word, using the WinFax Macro (already
installed in Word months ago) an error message pops up stating that "The
macro cannot be found or it has been disabled because of your macro security
settings."

My macro security setting in Word XP/2002 is LOW. To be sure the macro is
still installed, I reinstalled it today. However, that did not solve the
problem.

Evidently, some other macro security setting exists somewhere, perhaps in
WinXP Pro. However, I have no idea where to look for such settings.

I shall very greatly appreciate your help in solving this problem.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you haven't had problems with the Winfax macro, you have been very lucky.
It has a miserable history.
Set your macro security back to medium - it is safer, and tell Word to trust
all installed templates and add-ins.
Unless you are trying to use the merge facilities that the Winfax macro
applies, create the following macro:

Sub FaxPrint()
Dim sCurrentPrinter As String
sCurrentPrinter = ActivePrinter
ActivePrinter = "Winfax"
Application.PrintOut FileName:=""
ActivePrinter = sCurrentPrinter
End Sub

Copy the Winfax menu button icon to the clipboard then create a new
toolbar/menu button to call this macro. Paste the icon from the clipboard to
the new button, then remove the Winfax add-in altogether.

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if you don't know how to use
the code.


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[AA Smith]

Thanks very much, Graham! I'll give this the ol' college try.