Comments on: Outlook and “Macros are Disabled” error http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/ Making Microsoft .Net Development Magical Thu, 17 May 2012 06:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jjMan http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-30314 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:36:18 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-30314 Man, that totally kept me from digging through the internet for another 8 hrs.
Thanks!

]]> By: Sara http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-29714 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:34:21 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-29714 Try lowering your Macro security all the way, close Outlook, then reopen it. That worked for me. You have to close and reopen it after changing the settings though, or it won’t work.

]]> By: Aaron Sentell http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27973 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:45:17 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27973 I’m with Neal. Every time I restart Outlook I get the same issue. What a pain.

]]> By: Hossam Hammady http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27668 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:13:42 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27668 Thats was a great solution, but is there a fix for this bug?

]]> By: James http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27135 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:17:52 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27135 I found the problem for me to be with the macro security settings. Change the setting under the menu:
tools->macro->security to medium.

As Neal said the fix above only seems to work the first time its done.

]]> By: Neal http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27133 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:06:07 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27133 Thanks! This worked for me. Unfortunately, every time I restart Outlook, the macros are disabled again.

Any ideas for a longer term fix?

]]> By: Neal http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27116 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:07:54 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27116 Thanks! Saved my sanity.

]]> By: Don Carter http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27053 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:07 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-27053 I was actually getting an Automation Error (440). These macros had been working for a long time with no recent changes but I had recently downloaded an xml editor for evaluation so I figured it must have replaced one of the common dlls. After reinstalling/repairing all of the dlls that my macro project referenced my macros still weren’t working. After reading your article I decided to follow the instructions you posted on the chance that it was actually my project that was hosed. Now all of my macros are working again. Thank you!!!!

]]> By: Oskar Austegard http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25958 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:31:06 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25958 …and simply renaming the file, then re-pasting worked, as Richard suggested. I believe the offense I committed was installing the Microsoft OfficeLabs Email Prioritizer (which so far I see no reason to install).

]]> By: Oskar Austegard http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25957 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:25:15 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25957 The folder path in Vista would be:
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\

]]> By: Richard http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25808 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:11:11 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25808 I know what *I* did to break this. My macros were digitally signed, and I deleted the cert without unsigning my macros.

]]> By: Richard http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25807 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:03:42 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25807 I did not have to reboot my computer for this to work — I simply shut down Outlook completely, renamed the file, restarted, open VBA, inserted a new Module, pasted my code, saved, and I was all set.

]]> By: callize http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25709 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:41:07 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25709 Thank you for the solution. I faced the same problem too and shall try out your method.

]]> By: Sef Kloninger http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25375 Tue, 27 May 2008 04:43:30 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-25375 Also thanks — this helped me too. I was stuck in the same place.

]]> By: Kasper http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-21354 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:23:45 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-21354 Thank very much for this spot on solution. Sure saved me a lot of time. Things went wrong after upgrading my Office 2000 Pro to a Office XP Pro. Thanks again..!

Kasper

]]> By: Ryan http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-9488 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:31:25 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-9488 Simeon,

I have had a remarkably similar problem. I installed a third-party add-in, and it hosed my VbaProject.otm file. I verified that it was a corrupt file by the “renaming/restarting” Outlook trick.

Any luck on finding an app to pull out the source code from the OTM file? Pointers would be appreciated, if you have any.

Tks,

R

]]> By: Simeon Simeonov http://arcanecode.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-3808 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:07:08 +0000 http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/outlook-and-macros-are-disabled-error/#comment-3808 I wish I had read this post a little earlier…
The dig certificate I had used to sign VBAProject.OTM expired on Sat so yesterday I got a new one and re-signed VBAProject.OTM. Apparently, this led to some type of file corruption and now I cannot get access to more than a thousand lines of code I wrote last year (meaning, it’ll take me a while to reproduce them ;-) .
On top of this, I found that the automated online backup system I’m using had decided that VBAProject.OTM is a “cache” file and, therefore, hadn’t bothered to back it up.
The interesting question for me is whether there is anything I can do to extract my code (or, at least some of it) from VBAProject.OTM… It’s about 200K in size. When opened using the VBA Macro Editor it shows no code. If I open it using Visual Studio in binary mode, I can see my code in there (encoded in the VBA binary format).
Any ideas? Any docs on the VBA binary format? At this point, I’d feel better writing an app to pull my code out than re-writing the code. Plus, this way I can share it so that others don’t get hit by the same problem.

Best,
Sim

]]>