2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Using Trusted Locations

Trusted locations are established on a hard drive or a network. These locations essentially bypass the Trust Center security feature in PowerPoint 2007. For example, a document that contains macros might be considered a threat by the Trust Center. Moving the document to a trusted location lets you open the document without any changes to the macro settings.

If you are on a network, your administrator has probably created a trusted location for you. If not, you can use the trusted locations automatically created when you installed the Microsoft Office system. These are usually in Program Files/Microsoft Office/Templates or Office 12/Startup. You can also create and manage your own trusted location in PowerPoint 2007 using ...