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I wonder if MS has found another way to try and stop macro-enabled files (that have been downloaded / emailed) from running?!Īs an aside, the offending AddIn had been downloaded over the internet. If you look in Word Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View it will give you some information about what would trigger. True to repair the document to prevent document corruption. (You may also want to disable it for files originating from the Internet.) Once you do this, youll get the Open/Save dialog, which can be disabled by editing the registry. The file was received as an Outlook attachment and your computer policy has defined the sender as unsafe The. Disable the option to enable it for Outlook attachments. The file was opened from an Internet location. True if the document is opened in a visible window. Go to the File, Options Trust Center dialog and select Protected View. If you want to keep all three items checked in the top part of File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View, then you must do two things: Never open a document directly from an Outlook attachment (the subject of the third check box).
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True to add the file name to the list of recently used files at the bottom of the File menu. However, the 'mark of the web' (ie right-click the file, Properties > General and tick 'Unblock') had been removed long ago. The name of the document (paths are accepted). For a trusted document, there is no prompt when you open the file, even if new active content was added. Active content (macros, ActiveX controls, data connections, and so on) opens without the Message Bar warning after you mark the file as trusted. But I know this isn't gonna be the case for every AddIn for everyone.Īs an aside, the offending AddIn had been downloaded over the internet. You will know that your file is in Protected View when you see a Protected View bar on top of your file with a message that serves as a warning, as files from. Trusted documents are files that have been marked as trusted by enabling active content in them. If you can identify a specific AddIn (or I guess could be multiple AddIns) and opt not to automatically load it/them when Excel starts then I think this is likely to be a better solution than disabling Protected View (no security risk). In my case, I wasn't really using the offending AddIn so I have left it that it does not load automatically when Excel starts and so I now do not get the message. I went through the list of AddIns (in Excel 365, see: File > Options > Add-ins > Manage > Excel Add-ins > Go) and unticked/unchecked each one individually to find the offending AddIn. In my case, the offending file that causes the message to appear when Excel starts is an AddIn that is being automatically loaded when Excel starts.
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#Protected view microsoft word message update#
The problem may be related to an update from Microsoft as it is being reported by users on other sites.