macros not allowed in Win 2000 (word 97)

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I have one computer in my classroom lab with Windows 2000 Pro on it (others are 98 or ME). I was having the students record some macros, and everything worked fine except for the person using Win 2000. Apparently, you can’t add macros unless you are an Administrator. Is there a way around that? (other than giving students Administrator privileges?)

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Hmmm, that doesn’t seem right. Check Tools|Options…|File Locations for the location of the User Templates folder. Is it under a path to which the user does not have privileges? You should be able to re-point it to another path to which the user has all the necessary privileges. (Unfortunately, if that doesn’t work, I’m out of ideas.)

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If the user doesn’t have access to the User Templates folder then you could get them to record the Macro in the current document.

StuartR

Edited by StuartR when I realised that I had set my image to have transparent black

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the file location is pointing to the normal folder for templates on drive C. Today I logged in under a student ID and I was able to put in macros. Maybe the student had done something else wrong to cause the problem

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