Microsoft® Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit

Security and Office 2003

The new security part of the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit covers a range of security-related concepts and features of Microsoft Office 2003. To help address growing concern about the security of information and systems, several new features were included in Office 2003 for administrators and users.

Some of the new improvements include the following:

• Revised macro security

  While the previous macro security method helped to address many security-related issues, a few subtle improvements have been made to how documents, attachments, and linked references are opened.

  However, this may cause some minor problems for some users when attachments to some files no longer open or are disabled. Administrators can revise ...