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Title: Feature request: macro detection in Office Open XML files
Post by: rpbtf on April 09, 2016, 02:17:06 PM

Hello Phil,
could you please add another tag for Open XML files (docx,..) so I can see if there's a macro inside (if the zip contains a vbaProject.bin or not) ?
If possible, I'd like to see that for the old MS Office bin file format too.

Best regards,
Ralf

Title: Re: Feature request: macro detection in Office Open XML files
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 09, 2016, 05:07:42 PM

Hi Ralf,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into this and post back here if I have any questions. It would be useful if you could provide a sample.

- Phil

Title: Re: Feature request: macro detection in Office Open XML files
Post by: rpbtf on April 09, 2016, 06:10:44 PM

Hello Phil,
more information about VBA macros in MS Office 97-2003 and 2007+ documents can be found here: http://www.decalage.info/vba_tools
In Word 2016 you have to use the .docm extension, if the document contains a macro. Otherwise Word will not open it. Rename it to .doc and Word 2016 does it.
It seems that Word 2010 opens .docx also with a macro in it.

Best regards,
Ralf

Title: Re: Feature request: macro detection in Office Open XML files
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 11, 2016, 07:20:31 AM

Thanks. I'll look into this.

- Phil

Title: Re: Feature request: macro detection in Office Open XML files
Post by: Phil Harvey on December 09, 2020, 09:39:22 AM

I'm just closing out this thread. The current version of ExifTool identifies this test file as DOCM, which I think is what you wanted.

- Phil

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