Troubleshooting

What to Do If You Can't Add a New Trusted Publisher

As you learned earlier in this chapter, Word allows you to add new trusted publishers: publishers whose digital certificates will certify that their macros can always be trusted. If you attempt to add a digital certificate and Word prohibits you from doing so, there are several possible causes:

  • The certificate may have been created by the user himself or herself, using the Selfcert.exe tool provided with Office 2003. In this case, no third party is certifying that the user is authentic, and accordingly, Word does not acknowledge the certificate as authentic, except on the computer ...

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