Well, if by "check" you mean "click the checkbox", then yeah, I can see why that would be a security hole and hence it makes sense that it's not allowed. However, I found this thread because I was looking for a way to programmatically confirm the current setting (another definition of "check"... as in, to "check up on something"), and I get the impression that's not possible either. I'm trying to write a script that would create Macros if the user's security settings allowed, but if they didn't, it would quietly just not bother making any Macros rather than bombing out. Is there some way to peek in at the current setting programmatically?