Receiving Error Messages Re: Macros When I Open All Word Docs

[Athena28]

Hi,

Whenever I open any Word Doc. I get the following messages:

"The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, and then close open dialog boxes to continue."

I click ok.

There's then another error message:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP\PDFMaker.dot contains macros by Adobe Systems Incorporated

Macros may contain viruses. It is usually safe to disable macros, but if the macros are legitimate you may lose some functionality.

The security level is set to High. Therefore, you cannot enable macros from sources that you do not trust."

I am then given the option to check a box entitled:

"Always trust macros from this publisher."

Or I can click on "Disable Macros."

If I close both of these boxes without doing anything another error message
appears:

"The macros in this project are disabled. Please refer to online help or documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros."

I click ok and the document opens.

I didn't purposely create macros. Most of my word docs. don't have macros.
A few might because I copied/pasted articles from newspapers but these error messages appear in simple letters I've typed that contain no macros. They even appear in brand new blank word docs.

How do I get rid of all these error messages?

Thanks.

[smurfy]

Hi and welcome to CTH.

You have an Adobe Acrobat writer installed and part of that installation is a pug-in (actually a document template - PDFMaker.dot) to allow you to write any word document to a pdf directly from within Word.
In order for this to work, you need to allow it get past Microsoft's (necessary) macro security.
You should therefore enable macros and allow content from Adobe Systems.
The messages should then go away and you will be able to write PDFs.

On the other hand, if you want to have to open Adobe Acrobat Writer every time you need to convert a Word document to a PDF, you can simply move the file: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP\PDFMaker.dot" into a backup location (I'd suggest putting it in your "My Documents" folder.

[Athena28]

Thanks, Smurfy.

I enabled the macros and was receiving a diff. error message so I went right to the file and just changed it's name. So far new (blank) Word docs. and old word docs. seem to be opening without trouble (I don't use Adobe except for reading docs. anyway so I'm not that concerned about changing themn to .pdfs).

Thanks again.