Microsoft Excel 2010
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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DTOO292 - Set document behavior
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Saved from URL mark to assure Internet zone processing must be enforced.
Typically, when Internet Explorer loads a Web page from a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share that contains a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment, indicating the page was saved from a site on the In...Rule Medium Severity -
All automatic loading from Trusted Locations must be disabled.
Trusted locations specified in the Trust Center are used to define file locations assumed to be safe. Content, code, and add-ins are allowed to load from trusted locations with a minimal amount of ...Rule Medium Severity -
Force encrypted macros to be scanned in open XML documents must be determined and configured.
When an Office Open XML document (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is rights-managed, or password-protected, any macros embedded in the document are encrypted along with the rest of the contents. By d...Rule Medium Severity -
Save files default format must be configured.
When users create new Excel files, Excel 2010 saves them in the new *.xlsx format. Ensure this setting is enabled to specify all new files are created in Excel 2010. If a new file is created in an ...Rule Medium Severity -
Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.
When users open files containing VBA Macros, applications open the files with the macros disabled and displays the Trust Bar with a warning that macros are present and have been disabled. Users may...Rule Medium Severity -
File types must be configured to provide mismatch warnings.
Excel can load files with extensions that do not match the files' type. For example, if a comma-separated values (CSV) file named example.csv is renamed example.xls, Excel can properly load it as a...Rule Medium Severity -
Internet links and Network UNCs created as embedded hyperlinks must be prevented.
When users type a string of characters, Excel recognizes as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) path to a resource on the Internet or a local network, Excel will tra...Rule Medium Severity -
Automatic republish to web pages must be disallowed.
If users choose to publish Excel data to a static Web page and enable the AutoRepublish feature, Excel saves a copy of the data to the Web page every time the user saves the workbook. If the page i...Rule Medium Severity -
Update of automatic links must be configured to prompt.
If an Excel workbook contains links to other documents and users are not prompted to approve them, the contents of the workbook might change without the users' knowledge because the linked files ha...Rule Medium Severity
Node 2
The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.