- Recovering More of Your Work with a Shorter AutoRecover Interval
- Automatically Saving Your Work Frequently
- Closing a Document Without Saving
- Closing All Your Open Documents
- Making Backups as You Work
- Showing More Items on the Recent Documents List
- Opening the Most Recently Used Document at Startup
- Clearing the Recent Documents List
- Creating and Opening Document Workspaces
- Automatically Prompting for Document Properties
- Creating a Trusted Location for Documents
- Viewing Total Editing Time Updated in Real-Time
- Calculating Billable Time Charges
- Locking Document Formatting
- Preventing Untracked Changes
- Setting Up a Document for Structured Editing
- Inspecting a Document for Personal Information
- Viewing Two Documents Side by Side
- Updating All Fields Automatically
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Creating a Trusted Location for Documents
Macro security is quite stringent in Office 2007, which shouldn't come as a surprise given the number of nasty VBA-based viruses and other malware that have spawned in the past few years. For a macro to work in Office 2007, the macro must come with a digital signature that is both valid and current, and the macro developer must be set up on your computer as a trusted publisher. To set up a developer as a trusted publisher, click Options when you see the Security Warning information bar, click to activate the Trust All Documents From This Publisher option, and then click OK.
What if you just want to run your own macros? In that case, you need to sign your own projects and then set yourself up as a trusted publisher.
If that all sounds like too much work, but you don't want to enable all macros, Word gives you a third choice: Store your macro-enabled documents in a trusted location. A trusted location is a folder that Word assumes contains only trustworthy documents, so it automatically enables any macros contained in those documents. By default, Word comes with three trusted locations:
- %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Templates—This folder holds the application templates for all of Office.
- %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates—This folder holds the Office templates you create yourself.
- %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup—This folder holds the global templates that you have created yourself and that are loaded into Word automatically at startup.
None of these locations are particularly convenient, but it's possible to set up a more suitable folder as a trusted location. Here are the steps to follow:
- Choose Office, Word Options to open the Word Option dialog box.
- Click Trust Center.
- Click Trust Center Settings. The Trust Center dialog box displays.
- Click Trusted Locations.
- If the trusted location is on your network, click to activate the Allow Trusted Locations On My Network check box.
- Click Add New Location. The Microsoft Office Trusted Location dialog box displays, as shown in Figure 3.1.
Figure 3.1 Use the Trusted Locations page to set up new trusted locations in Word.
- Use the Path text box to type the path of the trusted location.
- If you want Word to also trust this location's subfolders, click to activate the Subfolders of This Location Are Also Trusted check box.
- Click OK.
- Click OK to return to the Word Options dialog box.
- Click OK.
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