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Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243948
Pages 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
David Ringstrom David Ringstrom
Profile icon David Ringstrom

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Improving Accessibility
2. Chapter 1: Implementing Accessibility 3. Chapter 2: Disaster Recovery and File-Related Prompts 4. Chapter 3: Quick Access Toolbar Treasures 5. Chapter 4: Conditional Formatting 6. Part 2:Spreadsheet Interactivity and Automation
7. Chapter 5: Data Validation and Form Controls 8. Chapter 6: What-If Analysis 9. Chapter 7: Automating Tasks with the Table Feature 10. Chapter 8: Custom Views 11. Chapter 9: Excel Quirks and Nuances 12. Part 3: Data Analysis
13. Chapter 10: Lookup and Dynamic Array Functions 14. Chapter 11: Names, LET, and LAMBDA 15. Chapter 12: Power Query 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Warning prompts when opening workbooks

In 1999, the Melissa virus infected countless computers around the world. The virus spreads itself in the form of infected Microsoft Word documents. Over the years, Microsoft added several levels of defense to their products to prevent a recurrence of a similar virus. The trade-off is that users are often subject to warning prompts every time they open a spreadsheet.

In this section, I’ll discuss the most frequent prompts that appear and how you can manage the risks of working with spreadsheets of unknown provenance. First, let’s discuss the Protected View feature in Excel for Windows.

Protected View

Protected View first appeared in Excel 2007. It is designed to allow you to safely open and review a document in a sandbox environment that prevents it from making any changes to your computer. As shown in Figure 2.17, you can view but not edit the document when it is in Protected View:

Figure 2.17 –...

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