The default behaviour in Microsoft Office applications is to block macros in files originating from the internet, unless the code has been digitally signed by a trusted publisher. A red security warning will appear at the top of the sheet. Most of our Excel files contain macros.

Accountants Desktop was granted “trusted publisher” status and issued with a code signing certificate by GlobalSign, but we subsequently found that these certificates would need to be installed on every user’s computer to be effective. As this is highly impractical, a more workable solution is to follow the instructions on this page to ensure that our macros will be unaffected by Microsoft policy.

Once you have updated your macro settings and have either added us as a trusted site or unblocked each file, our workbooks will open with a yellow security warning and a button to “enable content” which when clicked, will allow our macros to run as normal.