I often need to add a Word file to the end of a PDF file. I do this by dragging the Word file from a folder in File Explorer directly into PDF-XChange and dropping it in the thumbnail pane after the last page of the PDF file (I hope that makes sense). When I do this, Word displays the following "Security Notice" about blocking macros.
While this is going on, PDF-XChange displays the following notice:
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If I close the Security Notice by clicking on the X in the upper right-hand corner, then the Word document is successfully converted to PDF and added to the end of the PDF document. If I don't close the Security Notice, then PDF-XChange eventually shows the following notice that it was unable to open the file and the conversion failed.
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Is there a way to avoid having to dismiss the Security Notice each time? I tried making the location of the file and/or the location displayed in the Security Notice trusted locations in Word (this is in the Trust Center settings). It didn't work.
One thing I don't understand is that the file path shown in the Security Notice is not where the Word file is located that I am converting. Why is a macro attempting to run from that file path?
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Re: MS Word Security Notice When Converting Word Documents to PDF
Hello mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap,
This seems like a MS related message and not something we generate.
I suspect your file has macros, but as the original is in your OneDrive account - a copy of the file is created in your temp folder for the conversion process, and Word is not happy with that unusual location for a file with macros in it and throws you the warning.
If you test with a different file that you are sure has no macros in it - do you still get the same warning?
Or if you download a copy of the file to e.g. your desktop - is there a warning in that case?
As for hiding that message - I do not think there's a way from our side to prevent it.
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This seems like a MS related message and not something we generate.
I suspect your file has macros, but as the original is in your OneDrive account - a copy of the file is created in your temp folder for the conversion process, and Word is not happy with that unusual location for a file with macros in it and throws you the warning.
If you test with a different file that you are sure has no macros in it - do you still get the same warning?
Or if you download a copy of the file to e.g. your desktop - is there a warning in that case?
As for hiding that message - I do not think there's a way from our side to prevent it.
Kind regards,
Stefan
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Re: MS Word Security Notice When Converting Word Documents to PDF
None of my Word documents have macros in them. I thought that maybe PDF-XChange was doing something with a macro to cause the notice to be displayed in Word. However, I have another computer with the same version of PDF-XChange and Word installed and it works normally. I have a couple of extra Word add-ins on the computer that doesn't work that are probably the source of the issue.
Anyway, thanks for the response.
Anyway, thanks for the response.
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Re: MS Word Security Notice When Converting Word Documents to PDF
Hello, mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap
Considering the macro warning points to an appdata folder belonging to MS Word itself, that certainly does point more at a Word addin being the cause. If this issue had something to do with our software, it would most certainly have a PDFX somewhere in the error report. Though to my knowledge, we do not run any macros which could trip a security warning.
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Considering the macro warning points to an appdata folder belonging to MS Word itself, that certainly does point more at a Word addin being the cause. If this issue had something to do with our software, it would most certainly have a PDFX somewhere in the error report. Though to my knowledge, we do not run any macros which could trip a security warning.
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