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In an effort to protect its Office users from dangerous macros , Microsoft has blocked the running of legitimate code written to enhance its products. This “blocking” occurs when the file’s origin is the Internet, but even files from an organization’s Intranet can be affected. The reasoning is that Office (or Windows, or both) considers some downloaded files as coming from Untrusted Sources .
Macros have added much value to spreadsheets, slide presentations, and text documents, and are common in many workplace documents. Most of these macros have been written using Microsoft-supported languages such as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and VBScript . While most of this code is safe, Microsoft has decided to protect its users by blocking the running of Untrusted macros by default. All macro-enabled files are affected.
When opening a macro-enabled Office document from an “untrusted” source (usually downloaded from the “cloud” or the internet) you may see the following message just beneath the Ribbon :