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Document Manager - Error Microsoft Office has identified a potential security issue

Updated over 3 weeks ago

Error: 'Microsoft Office has identified a potential security issue. Microsoft has blocked macros from running because the source of this file is not trusted.'
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VBA macros are a common way for malicious actors to gain access to deploy malware and ransomware. Therefore, to help improve security in Office, weโ€™re changing the default behaviour of Office applications to block macros in files from the internet.

With this change, when users open a file that came from the internet, such as an email attachment, and that file contains macros, the following message will be displayed:
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Please see the following link for more information.
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