Two Types Of Security Warnings In Excel 2007
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If you use Excel 2007, you might have noticed that Excel provides you with two different macro warning notices.
Sometimes, you'll open a file and see this message above the formula bar:
Other times, you'll get this dialog box instead:
It took me a long time to figure out what's going on. As it turns out, if you have the Visual Basic Editor window open, you'll get the dialog box warning. If the VB Editor is not open, you'll get the warning in the worksheet.
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