Hi Cmaldona, Don't know if you remember me but you assisted me once. Now I'll see if I can return the favour. I'm no wiz at this but here's what I know. There is a security risk associated with enabling macros because a macro virus could be attached to a document which you unknowingly open. Now you're not going to be alerted that you've got a virus only that the document has an attached macro and needs you to enable macros to read it. Macros detected by macro virus protection are not necessarily viruses. But if you are alterted to a macro attached to a document, you should be cautious since most users do not have macros in their documents. Personaly I have only had to do this once in the past so I'm quite a novice at this. OfficeXP which I was using at that time(and by extension I suspect Office 2003, which I now use) will only allow certain macros to run if they are digitally signed depending on the security level set. You can customize your security settings and also what programs you accept macros certificates for. Go to tools->macro->macros and decide how how you want your macros to be accepted and also Tool->macro->security and look at both tabs here. I wouldn't go enabling macros for a bunch of programs ahead of time but individualize it based on when the need arises. You can even create your own macro's for say Access or Excel which you can digitally sign so that you can leave your macros enabled and on the default security level. You ought to be able to change the settings to permanently "enable macros" and allow Word, Excel etc to warn you if any unsigned macros are found. I adapted some of what I just told you form a little research I did. Btw If you want further reading you can check this out even though it's kind of out dated http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/microsoft/2003-q3/0020.html Hope I have helped. Cheers.
