Hi Richard.  I tried looking for the setting you mentioned but it was nowhere to be found.  I considered downgrading my version of Access so that I could follow your excellent tutorials without similar problems arising in the future.  Then I had a brain wave- I saved my database as an access 2002-2003 database and voila - no more automatic enbedded macros and my database instantly has the default settings as your own version which makes it infinitely easier for me to follow along with your tutorials: it might be worth suggesting this to other newbies using Access 2007 as it took be hours to figure that one problem out!