Office 2013 can now block macros to prevent infection -- here's how to enable it

If someone sends you a document, modern versions of Microsoft Office will automatically open it in Protected View, to keep you safe from malware. If you need to edit it, you can do so, but it's at your own risk.

Office 2016 also gives administrators the ability to prevent users from running macros in Office documents that originated from the Internet, adding further protection. Frustratingly, this feature wasn’t made available in Office 2013, leaving users of the older suite at risk.

This has changed now though, as Microsoft has added the macro blocking functionality to Office 2013, and it works just as it does in Office 2016.

Administrators can enable this feature for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint under the respective application’s Group Policy Administrative Templates for Office 2013.