Reference number: CH000638

Changing the security level in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Question:

Changing the security level in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.

Reasoning:

Users may want to change the security levels in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word for any of the below reasons.

1. Increase the security to improve their system security.
2. Decrease the security to use more advanced templates with macros.
3. Enable / Disable to use of Macros.

Answer:

To change the security in any of these Microsoft Office 2000 products you can follow the below steps.

1. Open Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Word.
2. Click Tools.
3. Click Macros.
4. Click Security.
5. Select the Security level for that application. It is important to realize that changing the security in one of these programs will not effect any of the other applications. In other words if you change Microsoft Excel's security from High to Medium and Microsoft Word is set to High it will remain at High.

Below is the description Microsoft gives for each of the security levels.

• High - High. Only signed macros from trusted sources will be allowed to run. Unsigned macros are automatically disabled.
• Medium - Medium. You can choose whether or not to run potentially unsafe macros.
• Low - Low (not recommended). You are not protected from potentially unsafe macros. Use this setting only if you have virus scanning software installed, or you are sure all documents you open are safe.