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The Office Of Information Technology (OIT) Virus Notification
Program
Virus Security for Microsoft Office
Macro viruses transmitted in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
documents are becoming more and more common. There is, however, a simple
way of gaining some protection from them. You can change your general
settings so that Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will prompt you before
running any macros in any document you open. Here are instructions for
setting macro protection in these programs:
Instructions for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office XP:
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Choose Tools from the Menu Bar
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Choose Macro
- Choose Security
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Make sure security is set to High or
Medium
Instructions for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office 2003:
- Choose Tools from the Menu Bar
- Choose Options
- Click the Security tab
- Click on the Macro Security button
- Make sure security is set to High or Medium
In June 2001 and October 2001, security flaws in the macro security for
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were discovered. These flaws would allow
specially malformed macro code to bypass the macro security settings and
execute the macro without the knowledge or permission of the user. There
are patches available that will fix the flaws for the individual office
programs. You can get these patches from our
macro security flaw web page.
Instructions for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office 2007:
- Click the Office button
- Click the Word Options button
- Choose Trust Center in the Option list
- Click on the Trust Center Settings button
- Choose Macro Settings
- Select either the first or second selection under Macro Settings
To learn how to sign up to receive alerts via e-mail about any new viruses
that threaten the university, click on the Virus Notification Page.
To return to the main VNP web page, click on the Virus
Notification Program FAQ.
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