Just loaded office 2003. I now get told “macros are not enabled” should I not care and click OK or how do I fix this?
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Short answer: If you have to ask, you don't care and it will likely not effect you.
Longer answer: Macros are simple programs that are developed by the user - or IT developer - to accomplish more advanced tasks with the office suite and external applications. Macros are one way that MS office uses OLE and VBA to effect special advanced features, like a mail merge of your contact list with an automated email distribution. Excel, Outlook, Word and other applications are able to perform linked tasks to manipulate data and events with macros,
BUT it's also a security risk. Some of the more advanced exploits, worms, etc take advantage of MS's automation capability to let you meet new people and do bad things.