Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 74177
Macro security warnings are confusing
Last modified: 2015-05-02 14:04:55 UTC
When opening a document containing a macro, the user is prompted to enable or disable macros. A user may choose the default action which is "Disable" although being not conscious or later forgetful about this. Later the user can choose the menu item Tools - Macro - Run Macro, everything works as usual, the macro is selected and the Run button is pressed. But nothing happens. The macro does not run, but there is no warning or error message such as "Macro Disabled". If the user goes instead to the Basic IDE and trys to run the macro there there is a warning dialog (see attached), which says to check the security settings. the message is not helpful as it does not mention which security settings are referenced. The Tools - Options - OOo - Security settings are not relevant in this case. From all that I guess the issue might be... (a) the message at Basic IDE should say something like "This document has been opened with macros disabled" (b) the same message should also be displayed if the user trys menu Tools - Macro - Run
Created attachment 42730 [details] macro disabled warning messsage
TM->JSK: please have a look, thanks !
This is a good idea, this behavior never failed to annoy me too. But this is not so simple because the user should be aware of the condition of the security level at all times which is not obtained by a messagebox. Maybe more a statusbar item or something in the titlebar - whatever. To bh for evaluation.
Hello Frank. It's about macro security.