PLEASE ADOBE stop adding macros to Microsoft office startup folder. Almost all schools and university disable macros.Most user have them turned off by default.It generates error messages and or popups on all Mac (and some PC) computers every time a users runs MS office. It forces admins to endlessly have to fix your updates/installs. The follwing files cause problems!Excel > AcrobatExcelAddin.xlamPowerpoint > SaveAsAdobePDF.ppamWord > linkCreation.dotm

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PLEASE ADOBE stop adding macros to Microsoft office startup folder.

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March 1, 2025
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PLEASE ADOBE stop adding macros to Microsoft office startup folder.

Almost all schools and university disable macros.
Most user have them turned off by default.
It generates error messages and or popups on all Mac (and some PC) computers every time a users runs MS office.
It forces admins to endlessly have to fix your updates/installs.

The follwing files cause problems!

Excel > AcrobatExcelAddin.xlam

Powerpoint > SaveAsAdobePDF.ppam

Word > linkCreation.dotm

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@HustonCMichael I think adobe integrate its functionality with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) so that it can enable the features like "Create PDF" directly from within those programs. You could turn them off by default. Turning off macros by default in Microsoft Office involves adjusting the Trust Center settings. The steps vary slightly depending on the version of Office you're using,

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Thanks for your thoughts, But in a university environment everything is installed via MDM (JAMF on a Mac) Polices like Macros are turned off as a security priority centrally. Desktop clients can't control that policies.; Adobe acrobat updates becomes nothing but a bug rollout; I have not seen easy way to limit Adobe from installing macros on client computers.

Maybe this is a documentation issue., and I just don’t know what setting would fix this behavior.

(but I am not alone with this problem)

Adobe has a bad habit of offering/promoting un-available services to client's vs being smart enough not push features that client can't use: Ai / Fonts / Cloud-storage /etc. are all services you have buy, But Adobe will push them to the client then fail with errors; annoying.

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