They provide information which the History Department's Computer Services Representative thinks may be of use to staff and students in the History Department. Most of use MS Word for our word-processing. Word comes with a number of automatic features which are unsuitable for academic writing and which cause problems. This page tells you how to switch these features off. This page also tells you how to disable macros.
Macros are small programs embedded in documents.
They have almost no use at all for ordinary academic word-processing, but they can carry seriously destructive viruses. By disabling macros you will be protected from these macro viruses. Information on the Worm. Also information on virus hoaxes and email chain letters. MS Outlook will tell you that the file is a harmless .TXT file.