[hockeyiz]

How do you turn off macros in ms word?

[bbales]

what macros? Can you be more specific? Without any further information, I would suggest looking at your various preferences, to see if those will help you.

[hockeyiz]

Well all i heard was you could get viruses if u had macros on. I don't even know what macros are though...

[hockeyiz]

Because my G5 has been slower recently and my dock buttons need to be clicked like 5 times sometimes. Ut2k4 has been crashing when things get too chaotic, too. I was thinking I might have a virus or spyware and I heard having macros on makes you vulnerable to that.

[Shades of Gray]

Go to Preferences > Security and at the bottom there is a checkbox that says "Warn before opening document with macros". Be sure that box is checked.

The only time you have to worry about macros is when you load a Word document that comes from someone else. It should pop up a dialog box asking you to enable macros. At that point, click "Disable macros".