Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 07:22:18PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2004 07:11 pm, Nano Nano wrote:
> > You know you can set "Security Level = {Medium,High}" in Office right?
>
> Yes, but I was trying to give the OP a solution he could implement on his
> end. He probably can't control the macro settings the recipients of the
> file have.
>
> > I think it would be safer to save the files as the ancient Lotus 1-2-3
> > format.
>
> Perhaps, though the OP may have the same problem as with CSV - loss of
> essential content.
When I worked at Microsoft I read some Office internal planning
documents that said that 90% of spreadsheet users overwhelmingly use
them for entering a paged-sized grid of numbers and making a bar chart.
That said, the MS-internal accounting mananagment type folks would
present some a-f*cking-mazing spreadsheets, all linked to ERP data and
with the most amazing formatting you've ever seen. !!!
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