IE6 bug: Office/VBA certificate display HALF our company name
I'm an MSDN subscriber, and I can't find where or how to report this bug.
I've spoken with VeriSign, and they tell me it's a problem with IE6, not MS
Office, and to contact Microsoft. Here's the problem:
Our company name is "Standard & Poor's" -- we have a VeriSign Office/VBA
code-signing certificate to sign Excel spreadsheets with macros. When a
client sets Excel (2000 or 2003) to High macro security level, and then opens
a spreadsheet we published, the dialog box with the Disable/Enable macros
buttons displays only "Standard &" -- that's it.
This happens with a Word or Publisher document too. If I add a macro, sign
the file, and send it off to someone, they see only half our company name,
which is completely unacceptable. To see this in action, open any Office
2000 or 2003 application, use Tools / Macro / Security to set the level to
high, and then click one of these links.
When the macro warning comes up, don't check the "Always Trust" checkbox --
leave it off -- or you won't see the problem again. If you click Enable
Macros, you'll just get one message box saying "You are now running macros."
--
Andy Smith
Senior Systems Analyst
Standard & Poor's, NYC
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Re: IE6 bug: Office/VBA certificate display HALF our company name
Hi Andy,
I'm not sure quite how IE6 would fit in the scenario as the dialog appears the same if you first download the file then open it in
Word. Strictly as a guess, I'm wondering is if perhaps the ampersand character is seen as an 'escape' character in the Office macro
dialog in versions prior to Office 2007.
In Word menu customization, for example, you use an Ampersand to tell Word which character to use for the 'hot' key (underscored)
for keyboard shortcuts.
Is there perhaps a way to test what happens if you use && in place of & or to put quotes around the full name? You may want to
also followup on this in the Word VBA discussion group as well using the link below.
==========
<<"Andy Smith" <AndySmith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C722C739-E804-43E7-BAAF-005C2023AF40@microsoft.com...
I'm an MSDN subscriber, and I can't find where or how to report this bug.
I've spoken with VeriSign, and they tell me it's a problem with IE6, not MS Office, and to contact Microsoft. Here's the problem:
Our company name is "Standard & Poor's" -- we have a VeriSign Office/VBA
code-signing certificate to sign Excel spreadsheets with macros. When a
client sets Excel (2000 or 2003) to High macro security level, and then opens a spreadsheet we published, the dialog box with the
Disable/Enable macros buttons displays only "Standard &" -- that's it.
This happens with a Word or Publisher document too. If I add a macro, sign the file, and send it off to someone, they see only half
our company name,which is completely unacceptable. To see this in action, open any Office 2000 or 2003 application, use Tools /
Macro / Security to set the level to high, and then click one of these links.
When the macro warning comes up, don't check the "Always Trust" checkbox --
leave it off -- or you won't see the problem again. If you click Enable
Macros, you'll just get one message box saying "You are now running macros."
--
Andy Smith >>
--
Please let us know if this has helped,
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<
Re: IE6 bug: Office/VBA certificate display HALF our company name
IE, whether 6, 7, 5.5, or whatever, is where the certificates are added,
changed, deleted, etc. -- in Tools / Internet Options / Content /
Certificates. VeriSign tech support tells me it's an issue in IE6, not
Office.
--
* Please click Yes if this was helpful *
Andy Smith
Senior Systems Analyst
Standard & Poor''s, NYC
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I'm not sure quite how IE6 would fit in the scenario as the dialog appears the same if you first download the file then open it in
> Word. Strictly as a guess, I'm wondering is if perhaps the ampersand character is seen as an 'escape' character in the Office macro
> dialog in versions prior to Office 2007.
>
> In Word menu customization, for example, you use an Ampersand to tell Word which character to use for the 'hot' key (underscored)
> for keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Is there perhaps a way to test what happens if you use && in place of & or to put quotes around the full name? You may want to
> also followup on this in the Word VBA discussion group as well using the link below.
>
> ==========
> <<"Andy Smith" <AndySmith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C722C739-E804-43E7-BAAF-005C2023AF40@microsoft.com...
> I'm an MSDN subscriber, and I can't find where or how to report this bug.
> I've spoken with VeriSign, and they tell me it's a problem with IE6, not MS Office, and to contact Microsoft. Here's the problem:
>
> Our company name is "Standard & Poor's" -- we have a VeriSign Office/VBA
> code-signing certificate to sign Excel spreadsheets with macros. When a
> client sets Excel (2000 or 2003) to High macro security level, and then opens a spreadsheet we published, the dialog box with the
> Disable/Enable macros buttons displays only "Standard &" -- that's it.
>
> This happens with a Word or Publisher document too. If I add a macro, sign the file, and send it off to someone, they see only half
> our company name,which is completely unacceptable. To see this in action, open any Office 2000 or 2003 application, use Tools /
> Macro / Security to set the level to high, and then click one of these links.
>
> Word: http://home.comcast.net/~jasmith4/S&...n/S&P-Word.doc
> Excel: http://home.comcast.net/~jasmith4/S&.../S&P-Excel.xls
> Publisher: http://home.comcast.net/~jasmith4/S&...-Publisher.pub
>
> When the macro warning comes up, don't check the "Always Trust" checkbox --
> leave it off -- or you won't see the problem again. If you click Enable
> Macros, you'll just get one message box saying "You are now running macros."
>
>
> --
> Andy Smith >>
> --
> Please let us know if this has helped,
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> >>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<
>
> LINKS
> A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rd.vba.general
> or via browser:
> http://microsoft.com/communities/new...rd.vba.general
>
> B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
> http://microsoft.com/office/communit...s/default.mspx
> or
> Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>
>
>
>
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