This may be an obvious answer to more experienced Word users, but it's truly giving me quite the headache lately.

For the past five days (ever since updating with Windows 11 22H2 update), Word has been prompting me with Trust Center warnings that all macros are being blocked due to untrusted documents.

Every effort I try has no effect in allowing macros for any document whatsoever. Sometimes it's a yellow notification, sometimes it's a pink notification.

I've gone into Trust Center and added every possible Trusted Location for any document that I may use.

I first thought it was because most of my documents are stored in Dropbox. I added the network path to Dropbox, and macros still aren't allowed.



I then attemped to move the Dropbox files to a local folder that was also in the Trusted Location list. Macros aren't allowed.

Trusted Documents are enabled.

Macro Settings, Enable all macros and Trust access to the VBA project object model are selected.

Protected View is disabled.

I've tried deleting all macros and rewriting them.

Is there any suggestion on what to do in order to allow macros to run again? I feel like it's some simple setting that I've missed, but I would have thought Enabling all macros would have solved the problem instantly.

Oh, I also occasionally get this confusing box when trying to run a macro from the macro editor itself. As you can see, both options are identical and neither actually allows macros. Ugh.

Microsoft always had a problem with MACRO's. The TRUST center was their workaround. Early versions of Office did BUT no longer does. (not sure where they made the cutoff, but I do know WORD 97 does NOT support Macros).
Whether MS$ has again made a determination with the upgrade to Win-11 to HALT Macro use, I'm not sure, but you might want to search on that "issue" rather than in regard to OFFICE being the problem. HTH

Did you see the article from MS
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Thanks for the suggestions.

I use Office 365, so that may be the issue as well.

All my macros worked fine up until the Windows 11 recent 22H2 update, and now I can't enable them at all for some reason.

As the picture in my original post shows, the only options that are available when I try to enable the macros are "help protect me from unknown content" which seems to disable the macros.