Temporarily Disable Auto-Macros

[tjeffryes]

I am a VBA veteran of 25 years, using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.  However, I'm relatively new to programming in Visio.

With those other applications, you can disable auto-macros (routines that run when opening a file or creating a new file) by holding down the SHIFT key.  That doesn't seem to work with Visio.  Can anyone tell me of a way to disable auto-macros when opening.  I don't want to launch visio by any other means - I just want to open a template that has auto-macros in it and keep them from running so that I can edit the code.

Thanks very much.

Tim Jeffryes
TJs Tools LLC

[Yacine]

You may use M$'s trust center. Set up a folder where the macro execution is restricted, copy the template and start it from there.
Complicated, but I wouldn't know of another solution.

[Paul Herber]

There are two ways to open a template in this way.
1. From File Explorer, navigate to the template file, right-click and select open.
2. Open Visio - menu File -> Open then navigate to the template file, then Open.

These will open the template without creating an instance of it i.e. macros will not be executed.