That is not a solution.




You point me to an Office 2010 solution, but I have Office 2019 (Pro Plus). I installed this Office version freshly yesterday and no, there are no options during installation; the complete package is installed.


I verified that I can use macro's in elevated mode, which tells me that macro support is indeed installed, but somehow crippled when not run in elevayed mode.



In older Office versions you could Modify the installation of Office in the Configuration Panel. But, with newer Office versions (2016, 2019) the only options are to either Uninstall or Repair, where Repair completely reinstalls Office.I did such a Repair in the past for a client and found out (the hard way) that together with the reinstall the activation was lost. Not good.


Anyway, thanks for the help!


Any other ideas???

Apologies. Your profile shows you as an Office 2010 user, so I tried to provide something for that version.

@jthomas666:
indeed I discovered my outdated profile settings after posting my question.
You saw the old version right before I changed them to the correct current values.
So, no need to be sorry


@stefan:
this is not the issue.
I installed Ofice 2019 straight away and I did verify that no compatibility options were set. Also, I verified that it (originally) did not run elevated.
Troubleshooting compatibility does not help. If it did, I would be very surprised, since I run it in the most current version of Windows 10.
I now run it on purpose in elevated mode, because then the error does not pop up ...



My guess is that somewhere under the hood som extra privileges are required for the use of macro's. Since the later versions of Office do not have the possibility to "change" the installation, I have no clues whatsoever where to search ...


Anyway, thank you very much for helping!