How do I create an message box when opening a Word document?

[Annie1904]

I often create a message box in Excel, for documents I share with colleagues,
but can't find a way of making this work in word. In Excel, I use visual
basic editor to add a macro to a workbook using the following

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
MsgBox ("message, etc")
End Sub

How do I do something similar in Word - by any method?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Sub AutoOpen
MsgBox "message, etc"
End Sub
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[Annie1904]

Super Charles! I did have to change the security level on the document to
low, but apart from that it worked well.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

There is _not_ a security level for documents. The security level you
changed is for the Word application!

Change it to medium. That way people are asked to approve running the macro.
That is one of the reasons people don't advise putting macros in documents.

Consider, instead, putting a borderless text box in your document with the
same information. Mark the text in the textbox "hidden" and put it in a
different font and color. Make the background transparent and put it in a
margin. Have it float in front of text rather than have the text in the
document wrap around it. Your users can see it but it won't print.
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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You should put the macro in the template from which the documents are being
created. Of course, if they are just based on the Normal.dot template, that
may not be practical as the message box would appear when any document was
opened.

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