How to sign my macro for no security warning?

[Jim 11]

Greetings. I created macros in Excel 2003, but those macros now always trigger a security warning when I open the spreadsheet with a macro. Until recently, I could eliminate the security warning by creating my own digital certificate and then digitally signing the macro. That no longer works after Windows 10 updated to the Creator edition (starting with 1705, and continuing with the current 1709). One web page I saw said that I need to save my digital certificate in a special trusted location. I tried, but without any luck. Any suggestions for how to eliminate the security warning about my macros would be much appreciated.

 

[Joe4]

Trusted locations work for me. Perhaps you did not set it up correctly? Take a look here: https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...location-7ee1cdc2-483e-4cbb-bcb3-4e7c67147fb4

 

[Jim 11]

Thanks, but that link applies only to 2007 or newer versions. I cannot find anything like a trusted file location in my older 2003 Office. The "trusted location" I mentioned from a web site somewhere was a place to put the digital certificate (not the file), but I could not get it to work.

 

[Joe4]

So, you are using Excel 2003 on Windows 10?
That is a bit odd. Typically, the Office version is newer than the Windows version, as users tend to upgrade Office more frequently than Windows (Windows 10 came out in 2015!).

Check out this article here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...t/6faf72ea-254a-4c8e-9982-2c36cdb1936c?auth=1
and note this part:

Older versions of Office such as Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP are not certified compatible with Windows 10 but might work with or without compatibility mode.

Might be time to consider upgrading Office too!