That's one of the settings that's stored in the windows registry.

If it's not sticking, maybe you don't have permission to update the registry?

Time to talk to the IT folks?????

If you're opening the file manually, you can old the shift (left shift???) key
down while you open the workbook.

This won't stop macros in general, but it will stop the auto_open and
workbook_open procedures from running.

Dima wrote:

Hello!
Excel 2003 sp2 and sp3 do not remember the macro security level. Excel
returns the level to low after any change of the level.
How to prevent a macro to run when Excel 2003 sp2 and sp3 open a file with a
macro?
Best regards
Dima

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Dave Peterson