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Self signing macros not working MS Office, Word 2010, 2013

Hello all,

I am seeing a lot of Macro viruses (back to the good old days, huh?) and trying to lock down MS Office.

Trying to add a self signed macro to my Word 2010,2013.

I am following the article from Microsoft:

https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Digitally-sign-your-macro-project-956e9cc8-bbf6-4365-8bfa-98505ecd1c01

When I try to run a Word Macro I get the message the Macros are disabled. In Word,

In the Trust Center, I have selected Disable all macros except digitally signed macros.

I have added the self signed certiicate to the Trusted-Root Certification Authorities.

I also get this BAR from Word:

SECURITY WARNING: Macros have been disabled (enable content)

which I obviously do not want to enable content and I do want the warning to show up.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
DT

n2fc

Did you note the restriction on changes to the project after signing?

Also, did you sign the project correctly?

DrTribos

I had the same issue with an actual Code Signing cert. In my case I think I was trying to run the code on a server (relax folks, VM test env.). Worked on regular PCs though.

To get it working on the server i used trusted locations.

dronethought

ASKER

Still not working

DrTribos

@DT - do you mean to say:

Thanks for your comments. I tried adding a trusted location but I still get the yellow bar, and by the way this is a regular PC. Any other thoughts?

Well... you could see if enabling all macros will work, if that still produces the yellow bar then at least you know there is a higher power involved.

dronethought

ASKER

Enabling macros work. Defeats the purpose though.

DrTribos

I think you missed the point. It was a test. Having done that test you now know that it is not some global setting.

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