Re: Microsoft Excel Macros - Attempt to open a file that is blocked by your registry policy setting

Did you look at the Microsoft knowledge base article for this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922848/

Richard Poliak wrote:
> I have a software tool from a vendor (IBM) that uses a set of MS Excel
> macros they developed to create graphs and charts from performance data
> created on our mainframe host systems.
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> These macros have been working for oh I’d say 2 years now on essentially
> a daily basis. I had to put the process aside (focused on other work)
> for maybe the past 3 weeks. When I attempted to use the macros again
> last week I started getting the message “Attempt to open a file that is
> blocked by your registry policy setting”. Being that I do not have admin
> rights on my PC I doubt I could have initiated purposefully or
> inadvertently some modification that would cause this result. My desktop
> support person is also baffled as we installed the macros on another PC
> and got the same message.
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> Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or would anyone have any idea
> how to get around it even if you haven’t had the problem?
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> Thanks
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> <mailto:rpoliak_at_berkeley.edu>
>
> Rich Poliak
> Supervisor Mainframe Group
> Infrastructure Services
> UC Berkeley
> Office: (510) 643-8168
> Cell: (510) 812-5301
> rpoliak_at_berkeley.edu <mailto:rpoliak_at_berkeley.edu>
>
>
>

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