Enable or disable macros in Office for Mac. Click the Word, Excel, or PowerPoint menu as appropriate. Click Preferences. Click Security & Privacy. To allow all macros to run select the Enable all macros radio button. Caution: This will allow ALL macros, both good and bad, to run without any further warning.
By When you’re ready, you can go through the changes and edits that other people made to a shared document in Office 2011 for Mac that Word has tracked and work toward creating a final document. Keep in mind that although text changes and comments are tracked, not every change made to a document is tracked. For instance, changes made to SmartArt objects aren’t tracked.
As years have passed, Microsoft has attempted to make the ideal interface to accomplish accepting and rejecting changes. Start with balloons because they’re so visible. If you find these balloons hard to read, too crowded, or clumsy to work with, try using one of the other methods, such as using the Reviewing sidebar or the Accept and Review Changes dialog.
You can turn the balloons on or off in the Track Changes preferences pane. The Reviewing pane is an alternative to balloons for viewing changes. The Reviewing pane shows up as a pane to the left of your Word interface. Toggle the Reviewing pane on and off by one of these methods:. Choose View→Sidebar→Reviewing Pane. Choose the Sidebar button on the Standard Toolbar, and then choose Reviewing Pane. Click the Review Pane button in the Changes group of the Review tab.
You would normally display either Balloons or the Reviewing pane, unless you have a really big screen. The Changes group of the Review tab has every control needed to manage tracking changes. The buttons in the Comments group allow you to move from change to change within the document as well as buttons to accept or reject changes. On each change balloon, you can click either the checkmark to accept a change or the X to reject the change. When working in the Reviewing pane, right-click a change and choose to accept or reject the change from the pop-up menu. An alternative to both balloons and the Ribbon’s Review tab is the now-discontinued Accept or Reject Changes dialog.
If you really liked it, you can still use it by way of a VBA macro: Sub OldTrackChangesDialog Dialogs(wdDialogToolsAcceptRejectChanges).Show End Sub.
Are you working in? If so, how many times have you tried to jump into a document and start making some changes and nothing happens? Oh, that’s right. You forgot to click on that annoying, little, yellow button on the top of the document.
As annoying as it may be, there are valid reasons for this new security feature in, which is an improvement over security features in previous versions of Office. As explained by the “With any piece of complex software, over time new file parsing exploits against it may be found. The older Office binary file formats had been susceptible to these types of attacks. Over the past years hackers have discovered ways to manipulate Office binary files so that when they are opened and parsed, they cause their own code embedded within the file to run.
To address these binary file parsing attacks in Office 2007, several new XML based file formats were introduced.” If you are generally savvy enough to not open documents from suspicious sources and enjoy an occasional walk on the wild side, well then here is a quick “how-to” on just turning the darn thing off permanently: 1. Open any (Ex: Word or Excel).
Click on Office or File button, and select Options. Under Options select “Trust Center” in the left pane. Click on Trust Center Settings in the right pane. Click on the Protected View in the left pane of “Trust Center” window. Check/Uncheck Protected Mode Options below to fit your needs If you want to take advantage of this security feature in a customized way, you can actually go back to step 6 and set specific Trusted Publishers, Locations and Documents right from this Window.
Unfortunately, you need to apply these setting to each Microsoft Office application individually. Hope this tip is helpful and saves you some time! Can’t tell you “Thank You” enough, Kevin! I have complete trust in my Norton software to handle all these types of issues. MSO has not only become an annoying controller, but has made simple to advanced tools more difficult to find and use. I’d been an advanced MSO user and trainer for 16 years.
Since switching careers back in 2004 (to Web Marketing), I’m so glad I’m not teaching it – because I’d have too many negative ideas that would pass on to the users. Grumbling is not a good asset for a trainer!!
LOL Anyway, thankfully, I can find professional MSO software help from people like you. You are definitely value-added! I got rid of the enable window but I’m still being asked “would you like to open or save?” every time I open an Excel attachment from Outlook. There’s an ‘ask this every time’ box checked but I can’t uncheck it.
I went to the Outlook trust center to work with attachment options but the security setting is ‘default’. How to I turn ALL of these things off? I work a lot in Excel and I receive invoices created in Excel every month from a trusted source. I just want to open, print and close in quick succession as I get 15-20 of these attachments at the beginning of each month.