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Whether you're looking at documents regarding business analysis, performance reporting or financial management, you might come across a special type of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with the file ...
Ronald Albaitis tried opening a file and got a warning that it contained “macros.” He asked me what they are and whether he should be concerned. A macro is a small, usually user-created piece of ...
I created a macro, but when I tried to use it later in another file, it disappeared. Then, when I went back to the file in which it was created, it was available again. What did I do wrong? You did ...
Microsoft has announced that it will disable macros in Office files by default to protect users from the various threats that exist on the Internet. Helping users stay safe: Blocking internet macros ...
Some users have reported that when they attempt to open a Word document, it fails to open. Instead, they see a Word cannot open the existing file (Normal.dotm) error ...
Microsoft Excel macros are designed to automate tasks you perform repeatedly in your spreadsheets and are meant to speed up productivity and increase accuracy by ...
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Barriers that Microsoft has placed to prevent malicious macros has forced some cybercriminals to use LNK files for malware delivery, but at the cost of easier detection. For years attackers have used ...
Security researchers are warning of a new high threat spam campaign using the file-less PowerSniff malware in macro-based attacks. Palo Alto Networks’ Josh Grunzweig and Brandon Levene claimed they’d ...
I have some Lotus 123 spreadsheets (*.WK1) with some pretty in depth macros that I need to somehow convert to Excel 2000 format and still work. I have been looking for a tool to do this or at least ...