Application.AutomationSecurity property (Access)

Returns or sets an MsoAutomationSecurity constant that represents the security mode that Microsoft Access uses when it is programmatically opening files. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.AutomationSecurity

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Remarks

MsoAutomationSecurity can be one of these MsoAutomationSecurity constants:

• msoAutomationSecurityByUI. Uses the security setting specified in the Security dialog box (Tools menu > Macro submenu). msoAutomationSecurityByUI is the default value when the application is started.

• msoAutomationSecurityForceDisable. Access will not open any database if the macro security level is set to High or Medium in the Security dialog box (Tools menu > Macro submenu). No security messages are shown to the user.

  Note

  This setting has no effect if the macro security level is set to Low.

• msoAutomationSecurityLow Enables all macros.

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