> Hi folks.  A friend of mine who knows almost nothing about computers
> was asked to create a contact list.  She'd been told to use excel,
> which she didn't know how to use and which I don't know how to use, so
> I suggested she just use Access, since I could easily set everything
> up for her.  So I created a contact list and emailed it to her.  But
> when she tries to use it she gets a security warning  that it
> "contains code that was intended to harm your computer."  I've been
> googling around on this but I'm having trouble finding a good
> solution. The problem is this needs to work on two computers of two
> people who barely understand computers, and possibly other computers.
> The easiest solution seems to be to just set security to low, which
> of course is highly not recommended but is something these people
> could do (with help).  I've also seen solutions like create a VBS
> script to open the particular files without security, but for that
> there would have to be a different script for each file (there are
> three) with the complete path of the file, and that's bound to get
> messy.  Ideally I want something simple that I can explain to these
> people that they can handle so they quit asking for my help.
>
> If you're wondering how my friend who knows nothing about computers
> wound up being asked to create this, well, it wasn't in the job
> description and they didn't ask her about her computer skills at all.
> But she'd rather not be fired.