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Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros now restricted by default for customer protection

Microsoft

Jan 19, 2022

In July of 2021, we released a new Excel Trust Center setting option to restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. As planned, we have now made this setting the default when opening Excel 4.0 (XLM...

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Kellie_msft

Former Employee

Feb 07, 2022

Hi John,

Fortunately, the Excel team has already separated XL4 macros from VBA macros, not only can they be managed independently, but we've recently restricted them by default.

See this blog post for more information: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/excel-4-0-xlm-macros-now-restricted-by-default-for-customer/ba-p/3057905