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  • DTOO146-Disable Trust access to VB Project Macros

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  • Trust access for VBA must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;VSTO projects require access to the Visual Basic for Applications project system in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, even though ...
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  • DTOO304 - VBA Macro Warning settings

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  • Warning Bar settings for VBA macros must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users open files containing VBA macros, applications open the files with the macros disabled and displays the Trust Bar ...
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  • DTOO143 - Force File Extension to match type

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  • File types must be configured to provide mismatch warnings

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Excel can load files with extensions that do not match the files' type. For example, if a comma-separated values (CSV) file n...
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  • DTOO138 - Internet and Network Path hyperlinks

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  • Internet links and Network UNCs created as embedded hyperlinks must be prevented.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users type a string of characters, Excel recognizes as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Uniform Naming Convention (UN...
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  • DTOO140 - Disable AutoRepublish

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  • Automatic republish to web pages must be disallowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If users choose to publish Excel data to a static web page and enable the AutoRepublish feature, Excel saves a copy of the da...
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  • DTOO150 - Automatic Link Updates

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  • The Update of automatic links setting must be configured to prompt user before allowing links to be updated.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If an Excel workbook contains links to other documents and users are not prompted to approve them, the contents of the workbo...
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  • DTOO141 - AutoRepublish Warning Alert

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  • The AutoRepublish warning alert must be provided.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;AutoRepublish is a feature in Excel allowing workbooks to be automatically republished to the World Wide Web each time the wo...
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  • DTOO152 - Load pics from Web not in Excel

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  • The loading of images from web pages must not be allowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users open web pages in Excel, Excel loads any graphics included in the pages, regardless of whether or not they were or...
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  • DTOO145 - Store macro in workbook

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  • Macro storage must be in personal macro workbooks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Record Macro dialog box includes a drop-down menu allowing users to choose whether to store the new macro in the current ...
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  • DTOO126 - Add-on Management

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  • Add-on Management functionality must be allowed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Explorer add-ons are pieces of code, run in Internet Explorer, to provide additional functionality. Rogue add-ons ma...
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siemur/test-space

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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