Chapter 4. Security and Privacy

In this chapter, we’ll cover overall system security issues, including ways to help protect your system against malicious software and hide your personal information from unwanted scrutiny. And we’ll discuss using digital signatures to both verify incoming files and certify your own outgoing files. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 has additional security features you can apply within workbooks, worksheets, and even cells. We’ll discuss these features in "Protecting Worksheets" and in "Hiding and Protecting Workbooks".

The Trust Center

Microsoft consolidated the kind of security features that are common to many 2007 Microsoft Office system programs in a dialog box it calls ...

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