Document Seen as Having Macros (Word 97/2k/XP)

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Has anyone ever seen the following behavior:

A document, which has no macros, which has actually been saved as RTF and re-imported to get rid of any corruption, suddenly and inexplicably tripping Word’s “This document contains macros” warning when opened.

Very peculiar.

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Does the document contain ActiveX controls, from the Control Toolbox toolbar?

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I think that’s possible. I have seen the “control toolbox” after loading (can’t recall if it was after saying no to enabling macros or after saying yes and loading with the shift key down…)

I just looked through the document for an “object” and found only one, a wav sound file.

Interestingly, however, if I create a new document based upon the same template and copy/paste the original document into the new document save and open/close open/close — I do NOT see the macro warning. But the sound file is preserved across the copy paste operation.

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I think that’s possible. I have seen the “control toolbox” after loading (can’t recall if it was after saying no to enabling macros or after saying yes and loading with the shift key down…)

I just looked through the document for an “object” and found only one, a wav sound file.

Interestingly, however, if I create a new document based upon the same template and copy/paste the original document into the new document save and open/close open/close — I do NOT see the macro warning. But the sound file is preserved across the copy paste operation.

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Does the document contain ActiveX controls, from the Control Toolbox toolbar?

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