How to open a NodeXL Workbook created on a different machine

By Marc Smith and Derek Hansen

Microsoft Office applications have trust issues.

When you download a NodeXL workbook from a different machine (perhaps from http://nodexlgraphgallery.org ) you may get an error like this one that mentions “trusted locations”.

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Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Runtime.

CannotCreateCustomizationDomainException:

This document contains custom code that cannot be

loaded because the location is not in your trusted

locations list: Sample_Facebook_Egonetwork.xlsx. If you

trust this document you can save and open it from a

location on your computer.

For more information,

see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=99104 .

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This problem is caused by a lack of trust. Excel documents may contain harmful code (“malware”) and the solution Microsoft created was the idea of “ Trusted Locations ”.…