Hello RW9, thank you for your solution, unfortunately this does not solve my problem. I understand your concerns and agree with you. I prefer open source code! If I should like to use/steal a foreign code it could be done by editing the first line of the macro and SECURE the code. In my current project we send all programms to our sponsor, so that the outputs can be re-run. To give them the project specific programs is no problem, but we would like to hide our generic macros. As discribed I would like to compile already existing macros. The macros in our company run through an extended validation. With the solution in your link I have to edit the first line of the macro and therefore re-validation is needed and the version controle will change the version number of the macro. This, I would like to avoid. So up to now the macros are not stored in any macro catalog, but the folder is assigned in a global programm. Thank you for your effort. Has anybody a solution without editing the macros. Maybe %include and write then from WORK to a new catalog? Thanks a lot!
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