Unsafe ActiveX contol error when launching Microsoft Word 2003 and Excel 2003

Unsafe ActiveX contol error when launching Microsoft Word 2003 and Excel 2003

Problem:

When launching applications from the Microsoft Office 2003 Suite, the following warning message may appear: “The application is about to initialize ActiveX controls that might be unsafe. If you trust the source of this document, select Yes and the control will be initialized using your document settings”.

Solution:

To resolve this issue, using Windows Explorer, browse to these 2 locations so that the following files can be removed (if they exist):

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\Startup
  
  • Dictation.dot
  • NavNC.dot
  • NavVd.dot
  
  
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11\XLSTART
  
  • from a NavNLU.dot
  
  

Now when launching a Microsoft Office application, the warning message should no longer appear. Please note that now direct dictation into the Microsoft Word and Excel (Office 2003) applications will no longer function properly.