How to enable macros in excel windows 11

I've been there…

I found a new macro that promised to automate a particularly annoying task, save me a ton of time and make me significantly more efficient in Excel.

I tried to run the macro.

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And then…

Something like this happened:

Sigh…

The first time I saw such a message in Excel, several questions popped immediately in my head:

• What security settings is this message referring to?
  
  
• What does it mean that macros have been disabled?
  
  
• Did I disable macros in Excel by mistake?
  
  
• How do I enable macros in Excel?

Needless to say, I eventually learned how to enable macros in Excel.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be writing this Excel tutorial now.

However, since I know that I'm not the first (or last) one to raise those questions, I decided to write this post.

My purpose with this tutorial is to answer the questions above and explain to you the most important things you need to know regarding how (and when) to enable macros in Excel.

This way, when Excel displays a dialog sayin

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