Learn How to Enable StyleEase Features

Enabling StyleEase

Whenever you open a StyleEase document, Microsoft Word detects that the document contains macros (the StyleEase software), and determines if it's safe to allow that software to run. StyleEase signs its software with a digital certificate from Thawte; such certificates are issued only after Thawte verifies the identity and validity of the signer.

If you tell Word to trust our certificate, then StyleEase can run without intervention; otherwise, Word needs to ask you about our safety each time it opens a document.

Different versions of Word use different methods to allow you to trust our certificate:

•	Trusting our certificate in Word 2007
•	Trusting our certificate in Word 2003 and earlier versions

Trusting Our Certificate in Word 2007

You must enable our macros to use StyleEase. We recommend that you set Word 2007's security settings to only enable macros that have been digitally signed, and to then trust our certificate. You need to follow these steps:

1.	Change Word 2007's Macro Setting to Disable all macros except digitally signed macros.
2.	Create a new StyleEase document from the Windows Start Menu.
3.	Trust the StyleEase Digital Certificate.

You only need to perform these steps one time on your computer; thereafter, Word will automatically allow any StyleEase documents to run without requiring extra steps.

Change Word 2007's Macro Setting

1.	Close Microsoft Word and then reopen it, but DO NOT open a StyleEase document while completing these steps.
2.	Click the Office button in the top-left corner of a Word 2007 document window.
3.	Click the Word Options button at the bottom of that screen.
4.	Click Trust Center and then click Trust Center Settings.
5.	Select the option to Disable all macros except digitally signed macros:
6.	Click OK to save this change.

Trust the StyleEase Digital Certificate

When you first create a StyleEase document after you've changed the macro settings, Word will initially disable the macros and display both a message screen and a Security warning, as shown here:

To allow StyleEase to run, follow these steps:

1.	Close the message screen.
2.	Click the Options button in the security warning. Word displays the security options screen:
3.	Select the Trust all document from this publisher option, and click OK. Thereafter, all documents signed with our certificate will be trusted by Word 2007.
	Note: The examples on this page are for the StyleEase for APA Style product; other products are the same, but the file names are slightly different.

Trusting Our Certificate in Word 2003 or Earlier Versions

Word displays a security warning when you first create a StyleEase document:

Select the Always trust macros option, and then click Enable Macros.

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