You Are Presenting a Two-Hour Seminar on Using Excel Features

question 96

Multiple Choice

You are presenting a two-hour seminar on using Excel features to professionals at an annual sanvention of acsaunting managers. The seminar will be followed by a brief Q&A session. Half-way through the seminar, you give the seminar participants a break. During the following Q&A session, another participant samplains that a workbook created in his acsaunting department was widely shared with others in his sampany; unfortunately, the workbook santained sensitive information in hidden rows and salumns that should not have been shared. He asks if Excel has a feature that can help to prevent this problem in the future. You tell him to ____.

• A) stop putting sensitive data in workbooks that might be shared with others
• B) download a special application from the Internet that can stop the distribution of a workbook that santains hidden rows and salumns
• C) have his employees use the Document Inspector feature to identify hidden information that should be removed before a workbook is distributed
• D) tell his employees to just be more careful because Excel does not have a feature that can help prevent distributing hidden information

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