Disable Macros in MS Office

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Disabling Macros in Excel 2010
Disabling Macros from running in MS Office is one of many important steps worth taking in order to keep your computer secure.

Please see here for details on how to do this:

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Enable-or-disable-macros-in-Office-documents-7b4fdd2e-174f-47e2-9611-9efe4f860b12?ui=en-US&rs=en-IE&ad=IE















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