> You do have to be smart about Word, because you can pass on macro viruses

This Word macro thing has been worrying me but I don't know what I need to do to protect against it. In Word's Preferences I don't see any facility for turning off or barring macros. The only option I can find is for it to give/not give you a prior warning menu. If you opt for it, you then have the choice whether to open the document with or without its macros. But - I presume - even opening it without macros means they're still there. Two questions:

If a Maccie opens a document that contains a mal macro, what does it do to their computer and email?

What to do if you're sending Word docs on as an attachment to PC users? The only thing I can think of is to open it without macros, then copy/paste the text into a new Word doc? Or won't that work? I want to "be smart" about using Word but I don't know how!

There's also a Nasty that lurks in .jpg images - or doesn't that apply here?

Thanks for your helpful input -