Cor Nouws wrote:
Can you give examples of things that won't be possible any more when macro's in documents are no longer allowed?
That's a great question. It would be very helpful to have some real-world use cases to understand how people use macros and what roles they fill.
Personally, I don't use macros much at all. The macro recorder is too hit/or miss and I don't have a lot of repetitive things to do. In emacs--the text editor I use most--I use little macros all the time (by the equivalent of the macro recorder) to combine a sequence of operations into a little bundle that I can easily repeat, so I guess I would use them in OOo as well if the recorder was more dependable and there was a similar command repertiore.
However, I know that businesses do depend on document macros, where specialized documents need a special support menu, or a special function. Whether this could just as well be done by loading a macro from the company Intranet, I don't know.
I could see that training someone to "just open this document/template", with the document-specific macros being automatically loaded, would be vastly preferable to training for a multi-step, manually load the macros procedure. ISTM that when macros are loaded automatically on opening a document, it doesn't make a vast difference whether they're loaded from the document or an external site. If the document is secure then either scenario can be safe. If the document is not secure, then neither scenario is safe: loading from an external site is not safe if the document can be modified to load the macros from the bad guy's site.
Is there currently any mechanism to know whether or not the macros in a document have been modified? Can the macros be write-protected or signed somehow?
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