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Microsoft Word 2013 STIG

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Word 2000 binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view.

    This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day securit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO336 - Word 6.0 binary documents and templates

    Group
  • DTOO338 - Word 97 binary documents and templates

    Group
  • Word 97 binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view.

    This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day securit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO339 - Word XP binary documents and templates

    Group
  • Word XP binary documents and templates must be configured to edit in protected view.

    This setting specifies whether users can open, view, edit, or save files saved in the specified format. Enabling the editing of the specified format in protected view, it mitigates zero-day securit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO426 - Custom XML markup warning

    Group
  • Word must be configured to warn when opening a document with custom XML markup.

    This policy setting specifies how Word behaves when opening a document that contains custom XML markup. Versions of Word that are distributed by Microsoft after January 10, 2010 no longer read the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • DTOO600 - Macros must be blocked from running in Office 2013 files from the Internet.

    Group
  • Macros must be blocked from running in Office 2013 files from the Internet.

    This policy setting allows you to block macros from running in Office files that come from the Internet. If you enable this policy setting, macros are blocked from running, even if 'Enable all macr...
    Rule Medium Severity

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.

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