iappyx / Instrumenta

Free and open source consulting-style Powerpoint toolbar
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Show "Enable Macro" button when adding the add-in in Power Point. #27

Closed bfkf closed 1 year ago

bfkf commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug If a user have never enabled a third-party add-in in PowerPoint, the "Enable Macro" button when adding the add-in will not show up. It is necessary to change its settings in the add-in's properties the first time to have it show up. To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Right-click on the Instrumenta file and choose Properties from the context menu.
  2. At the bottom of the General tab, select the Unblock checkbox and select OK.

Expected behavior When adding the add-in the security error will show up and the "Enable Macro" button will also show up.

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iappyx commented 1 year ago

Hi @bfkf, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I don't recognize this behavior on my development machines, I'll try to reproduce. As far as I can remember, when I installed it on other PCs I always got the enable macros message.

Not sure if I can fix this, as it seems to be a built-in feature in Windows.

Vadigor commented 1 year ago

Not sure why there's a screenshot for a Word doc here, but I can reproduce this on a personal Office 365 and Windows 10. Downloaded .ppam is blocked by default, giving an error when opening it.

The popup links to this page. As this appears to be a simple built-in Windows/Office protection there's really nothing @iappyx should be able to do. Maybe update the installation instructions I guess?

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iappyx commented 1 year ago

Thanks @Vadigor! Will update the installation instructions with the info and links you provided.

iappyx commented 1 year ago

Updated in documentation.