Welcome to Office Zealot Sign in | Join | Help

Changing Outlook's Macro Security Settings

 

If you ever have a need to programmatically change Outlook's macro security settings (or to change it outside of Outlook), you can do so by editing the values of this key in the Windows Registry:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security\Level

 

These are the settings in Outlook's Macro Security dialog and the corresponding values:

 

Setting

Value

No warnings and disable all macros

4

Warnings for signed macros; all unsigned macros are disabled

3

Warnings for all macros

2

No security check for macros (Not recommended)

1

 

If you change the value while Outlook is running, the change will be reflected in the dialog but the changes won't be applied until after you restart Outlook.

Published Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:03 AM by legault
Filed under:

Comments

# Weekend reading

How Microsoft Office Communicator enhances Outlook 2007 functionality Why boot an Exchange server from

Friday, June 06, 2008 11:06 AM by subject: exchange

# re: Changing Outlook's Macro Security Settings

Registry path you specify is for Outlook 2007.

\11.0\ for Outlook 2003

\10.0\ for Outlook 2002

Friday, June 06, 2008 1:18 PM by RobertSeattle

# re: Changing Outlook's Macro Security Settings

RobertSeattle: Sorry for not being clear, I was assuming the target audience knows that or could figure it out.

Friday, June 06, 2008 1:55 PM by legault
Anonymous comments are disabled