title: How to disable the MS Word "macro-free document" warning with code?
body: <p>I have an application that dynamically insert VBA code to help building a MS word document with proper bookmarks.  The VBA code doesn't need to be saved with the document itself.</p>
  
  <p>When saving the document, the following warning (unfortunately I can't post an image yet) will pop up that confuses the end users of the application.  Is there a way to disable this within the DocumentBeforeSave event?</p>
  
  <p>**</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The following cannot be saved in a macro-free document: VBA project To
    save a file with these features, click No to return to the Save As
    dialog, and then choose a macro-enabled file type in the File Type
    drop-down. Continue saving as a macro-free document? 
    buttons: [Yes][No][Help]</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>**</p>
  
  <p>One idea is to change the document's SaveFormat to an older format in order to prevent this warning from popping up.  But I'm not sure if this change will affect how the document behaves going forward and if it's even possible to modify this property within the DocumentBeforeSave event (the property is a READONLY property).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for any help on this topic.</p>
  
  <p>The following code will open a word (assuming c:\work\test.docx exist, which can be just a blank word doc).  If you hit the Save button on the word doc, the warning message will show up.  BTW, I'm using Office 2010.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;TestMethod()&gt;
  Public Sub testWord()
      Dim wApp As New Word.Application()
      Dim myDoc As Word.Document
      Dim DataCodeModule As Object = Nothing
  
      myDoc = wApp.Documents.Open("C:\Work\test.docx")
  
      DataCodeModule = myDoc.VBProject.VBComponents(0).CodeModule
      With DataCodeModule
          .InsertLines(1, "Option Explicit")
          .InsertLines(2, "Sub TestCode()")
          .InsertLines(3, "Selection.InsertAfter ""test""")
          .InsertLines(4, "End Sub")
      End With
  
      wApp.Visible = True
      myDoc.Activate()
  End Sub
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And once the DocumentBeforeSave is hooked up, I was hoping the following code would disable the warning.  Maybe the DisplayAlerts need to be set as soon as the document is opened?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Public Sub App_DocumentBeforeSave(ByVal doc As Object, ByRef saveAsUI As Boolean, ByRef cancel As Boolean) Handles _officeHelper.DocumentBeforeSave
              Dim WordApp As Object = this.WordApp()
              'WordApp.DisplayAlerts = False
              WordApp.DisplayAlerts = 0
  End Sub
  </code></pre>