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Microsoft® Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit
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Microsoft® Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit

by Microsoft Corporation
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
17h 40m
English
Microsoft Press
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Disabling Visual Basic for Applications

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) was at one time considered a security risk because of its ability to run macros attached to files or e-mail messages. The risk, however, is not with VBA itself—it is with the problems caused when VBA is intentionally used by attackers to disrupt or sabotage work.

Visual Basic for Applications is now an installable feature of Microsoft Office 2003. It can be left out of an installation by changing its installation state.

Note

Not installing VBA does not protect against malicious programs (such as compiled programs) created with other programming languages, nor does it remove ...

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