How to remove a Mac Word macro virus

Viruses mostly affect PCs.  But, your Mac may still pick up a virus.  One of the more common Mac viruses is a Word macro virus.  This means the virus actually infects a word document on your Mac.  If you have anti-virus software on your Mac, you should make sure it’s updated and run a full scan.  If you don’t have any security software, follow the following 3 steps to remove your Word macro virus on your Mac:

1. Open Word, select Preferences and then Security.  In the Macro Security area, enable Warn Before Opening a File That Contains Macros. 
2. Open up your suspected file, and most likely will give the option to enable or disable the macros.  Open it after disabling macros; cut and paste its contents to a new doc, and trash this infected original document after.
3. Quit all Office open apps and go to your user folder/Documents/Microsoft User Data and trash the Normal document which is most likely infected as well.  You can then create a new one by opening a new blank document selecting File->Save As.  Then, choose Document Template. 

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These macro viruses are common in Microsoft Office 2004 and older versions.  The current version of Word 2008 can’t run macros at all so you’re safe from these pesky macro viruses in this more protective version.  However, it always smart to install anti-virus software on your computer whether you’re running Windows or Apple as your operating system.