Changing Excel to Compatibility Mode If you send Excel files as attachments, and wish for someone who does not have Office 2007 to be able to open the attached file, you must change the way Excel saves the file. Earlier versions of office saved Excel files with a.xls file extension. Office 2007 saves Excel files with a.xlsx file extension which can only be read by Office 2007. Changing Excel to Compatibility Mode - To make changes to how Excel operates in earlier versions of Office you went to the Tools menu and then selected Options. In Office 2007 you start with the Office button to make those changes.
How to Enable/Disable Protected View in Office 2016. Usually, when you open an Office Word/Excel/PowerPoint file downloaded/received from the web or some other locations potentially dangerous for computer system, Office program will open the file in 'Protected View', and you will be prompted with the 'Protected View' alert message.
When the Excel Options window opens, click on Save in the list of options on the left and use the pull down arrow to select Excel 97-2003 Workbook. All future files that you save will have the file extension.xls rather than the 2007.xlsx extension.
The next time you open Excel 2007 you will see a notation in the title bar that you are in Compatibility Mode. This means that any file you save will have the older file extension and can be read by someone with an earlier version of Microsoft Office. If you do not want to set your Excel 2007 to Compatibility Mode you can still change the file type in the Save As dialog box. Below File name you are given a chance to Save as type. Click on the down arrow and select Excel 97-2003 Workbook. This will save the file as a.xls file but will not set Excel to Compatibility Mode. If you open the.xls file with Excel 2007 you will be working in Compatibility Mode when using that file, but the Default mode is not changed.
What you lose in Compatibility Mode Number of Rows and Columns - One worksheet in the new excel can have 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns. To verify this, click on the blue rectangle located to the left of the A in the column heading row and above the 1 in the row number column. If you leave your mouse button depressed, Excel will display the number of rows and columns in a worksheet. Excel in Standard Mode If you 'do the math' you will discover that one Excel worksheet contains over seventeen billion cells (17,179,869,164 to be exact). That means that a single worksheet could contain the names of every person who is alive on Planet Earth as well as the names of every person who ever lived on our planet (if such data was available).
On the other hand, when using Excel in Compatibility Mode you have only slightly more than sixteen million cells available on a single worksheet (16,777,216 to be exact). Excel in Compatibility Mode Comma Delineated Names - Excel can be used to make a custom list of students. This feature is explained in a. If any earlier version of Excel is used to make such a list, and if you wish to have student's names listed last name first, you can not use a comma to seperate the names. For example; John Doe's name must be listed Doe John rather than Doe, John. The comma will cause earlier versions of excel to consider the entry as two separate names. The same is true for Excel 2007 in Compatibility Mode.
To list student names with commas (as seen below) Excel must be in Standard Mode. an article from Microsoft's Tech Net which includes a list of features impacted by compatibility mode for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
How to Enable/Disable Protected View in Office 2016 Usually, when you open an Office Word/Excel/PowerPoint file downloaded/received from the web or some other locations potentially dangerous for the computer system, Office program will open the file in 'Protected View', and you will be prompted with the ' Protected View' alert message. 'Protected View' is one of the security features built-in Microsoft Office 2010-2016 for protecting your computer from viruses, malware, or anything unsafe possibly embedded in the Office document. However, being frequently blocked with such a prompt may be annoying and sometimes unnecessary for you so that you may wonder how to remove it. Now, this page will show. How to enable/disable Protected View in Office 2016 Word/Excel/PowerPoint An Office document that opens in protected view mode can't be edited.
If you trust the source of this document, just need to click the Enable editing button to remove the 'Protected view' so that you can edit the document. However, this is temporary.
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Next time you open a Word document, it will still open in protected view mode. To permanently disable 'Protected View' in Office 2016, do as follows. Step 1: Open one already existing Office document, such as Word. Or create and open a new Office document.
Step 2: Select the File - Options tab. Step 3: After the Word Options dialog opens, select Trust Center on the left-side pane and then click Trust Center Settings button on the right-side pane. Step 4: After the Trust Center dialog opens, select Protected View.
'Protected View' is enabled by default. To disable it, uncheck the boxes next to the corresponding items and click OK. If you want to disable 'Protected View' in Excel/PowerPoint 2016, the steps are the same. Then you won’t be prompted with the Protected View warning next time when you open an Office file downloaded/received from the internet or other location. Tips: 'Protected View' is actually one very useful feature to secure computer system from potentially dangerous programs/files. Once a Word/Excel/PowerPoint document is received from the Internet or other places, Office program will detect it.
Once potential safety problems are found, Office will open the document in an environment isolated from the computer system, which is just the 'Protected View'. This prevents the virus or malware running on your computer.
Hence, You are not recommended to disable “Protected View” feature in Office 2016/2013/2010 unless you are pretty sure you won't open any potentially unsafe Office files or you've installed anti-virus software on your computer.