URGENT: Word macro storage error

Hi guys,

I'm quite new at this forum but need desperate help in trying to run several macros created for Word 97.

In my macros, I try to access the ActiveDocument by this path: Application.ActiveDocument

When run on my machine, it works fine. However, when run on other ppl's machines it's coming up with the error 5981; "could not open macro storage". The only difference that i can think of that would make a difference between my machine and the others is that I have the full Visual Studio package installed. I don't really want to install Visual Studio in each and everyone's machine as I don't think the company would want the cost of getting extra licenses for the package. Where am I going wrong here?

I went on the Microsoft site to look for help. I came up with some suggestions to check :
1. network permissions (users have full-write access)
2. memory - not a problem either

I apologise if this query has come up before but I DESPERATELY need help and would appreciate any suggestions and ideas on how to solve this problem.

Thanks heaps,
Ida

Are these recorded or programmed macros and if they're programmed you used the visual basic editor (VBA) in Word right? If you used VBA you shouldn't (as far as I've noticed, I haven't done that much with Word but with Excel and Visio this is the case) need to install Visual Studio on the other machines. Do you have any hard-coded paths perhaps that aren't found on the other machines or documents that you reference? Shot in the dark but perhaps.