Hi everyone,

Last night I installed MS Office Professional Edition 2003. Even though I
already had Office 2002, I did a complete install (as opposed to the Upgrade
option at installation) . My O/S is Windows XP.

Since then, when I close an Excel application (most of mine contain VBA and
controls), an annoying message box appears, with "Microsoft forms" in the
title bar, the vbExclamation icon, and two buttons labeled OK and Cancel.
The text of the message is:
"This application is about to initialize ActiveX controls that might be
unsafe.
If you trust the source of this file, select OK and the controls will be
initialized using your current workspace settings."

I have done numerous searches on Google and did everything anyone had been
advised to do that was experiencing this same problem. I also went to this
KB link
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;827742
and followed the directions by setting the UFI control to 1 for each of the
3 registry keys listed on that page. One of the 3 key paths was incorrect
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Off ice\Common)
in that on my system at least, there was no "Office\Common" path
continuation, so I created one and still set the UFI to 1 there. No luck.

Nothing I've tried has worked. I guess Office 2003 is still too new
whereby there is not abundant information on how to fix this annoying pop-up
at application close (not quitting Excel necessarily, just closing a file
that contains VBA or ActiveX controls).

Has anyone experienced this and successfully fixed it? If so, how did you
fix it?

Thanks for any info or tips.

Tom Urtis