Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us
Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network
Home
Discussion Groups
General
GeneralPortable MacsHardwareNetworking
Applications
Mac ApplicationsEudoraFirefox / MozillaInternet ExplorerOutlook ExpressMS OfficeEntourageExcelPowerPointWordVirtual PCMedia PlayerOther MS Products
Programming
Mac ProgrammingCodeWarriorPerl
Country Specific
Australian Mac GroupUK Mac Group

Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2005



Tip: Looking for answers? Try searching our database.

Macro Security Hang when converting rtf document

Thread view: 
Enable EMail Alerts  Start New Thread
Thread rating: 
Mark - 12 Oct 2005 07:53 GMT
This bug occurs using Word X and Word 2004.
First I have my secrity in both installations switched on (Macro virus
protection).  This displays the Enable Macros form when documents with
macros are loaded.
I have a word document saved as a rtf document that has a macro
template attached.
When I open word (X or 2004) and from the project gallery open the rtf
word document with the macro template attached it opens and displays
the conversion dialog "Word is converting Document1.rtf...".  A second
after this the Enable Macro form is displayed and then it hangs from
then on.  From here I need to force a quit of word.
Is this a confirmed bug?
The only way we can get this to work is by disabling the security.  As
this is commercial software we feel it is not a good idea to tell our
clients to disable security.

And in case your wondering... We do require the document to be stored
as rtf.  We have a rtf converter that is run on it.

Does anyone know if there is a fix in the pipes or a work around?  Or
is this a confirmed problem?

Thanks for any help...
Shawn Larson [MSFT] - 21 Oct 2005 21:45 GMT
On 10/11/05 11:53 PM, in article
1129099997.276723.94830@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Mark"
<mmontgomery@typefi.com> wrote:

> This bug occurs using Word X and Word 2004.
> First I have my secrity in both installations switched on (Macro virus
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
>
> Thanks for any help...

Mark,

I am not able to repro your issue.  I am following this scenario:
* Word menu, Preferences
* Security; check macro security warning, OK
* Create new template
* Add macro to template
* Save and close
* File, Project Gallery, My Templates
* Choose my template, Open
* Add text to document; File, Save As, RTF
* File, Close; File, Open

Progress bar for converter RTF file displays, no macro warning alert.

The Œthing¹ that¹s throwing me the most is the file being in RTF format.  If
a document contains macros or custom toolbars, and is then saved in RTF
format, the macro and toolbar customizations are removed.  The Œenable
macros¹ warning alert should only appear with documents that contain
customizations to toolbars or menus or contain macros.

What Œkind¹ of macros are in the attached template?  Does the template
contain any custom File, Open macros?  Are the files opened as documents and
then converted to RTF?

Signature

Thanks,
Shawn Larson
M
Mac Word Test

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

>>  
>> Find out everything about Microsoft Mac Newsgroups at:
>> [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups]
>> Check out product updates and news & info at: [http://www.microsoft.com/mac]
Mark - 25 Oct 2005 00:35 GMT
Hi Shawn,
It does sound like you repeated the process that I had layed out.
The rtf document itself does not contain any macros only the template
".dot" it is attached to.  The template does capture the AutoOpen event
and does some processing of document fields so I wonder if this could
be doing something in there.
Our template does a whole lot of stuff so what I will do is try create
a simple template to issolate this error and will let you know how it
goes.
Thanks...
Matt Centurión [MSFT] - 28 Oct 2005 22:43 GMT
Hi Mark, the problem you are experiencing has to do with the fact that the
"Convert RTF" dialog appears in front of the Macro warning dialog. Usually
this conversion progress will appear in the bottom status bar of the
currently active window. Thus you would only encounter this problem if you
don't have any documents open or if you have turned off the "Status bar" in
the View preferences.

I have reproduced your issue under these circumstances and have logged a bug
in our database. For the meantime if the above information doesn't help
solve your issue, you can always use the following keyboard shortcuts to
activate the button of your choice in the Macro Warning dialog. While you
will not be able to click on the dialog with a mouse, it will still pay
attention to keyboard shortcuts:

<CMD>-E = Enable Macros
<CMD>-D = Disable Macros
<CMD>-N = Do not Open
<CMD>-T = Tell Me More

Thanks again for letting us know about the issue.

Matt
MacWord Testing
Microsoft

Signature

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

MS Mac Newsgroups:      http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support/newsgroups.asp
MS Mac News & Updates:                         http://www.microsoft.com/mac

On 10/11/05 11:53 PM, in article
1129099997.276723.94830@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Mark"
<mmontgomery@typefi.com> wrote:

> This bug occurs using Word X and Word 2004.
> First I have my secrity in both installations switched on (Macro virus
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
>
> Thanks for any help...
 
Sign In
Join
My Latest Posts
My Monitored Threads
My Blog
My Photo Gallery
My Profile
My Homepage

Start New Thread
Enable EMail Alerts
Rate this Thread



©2008 Advenet LLC   Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.