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Understanding security

Understanding security

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Understanding security

- [Instructor] I've opened the file called Introduction. We've seen it in prior movies. What I didn't point out in the previous movies is if you look at the Title Bar, you possibly are seeing Introduction.xlsx, or maybe you're just seeing the word Introduction. The XLSX is what we call a file extension. And if you're going to be working with macros, I strongly suggest that you make this be visible. If a file has a macro in it and it has been saved at least once, its file extension will need to be XLSM, and Excel will prompt you if you add a macro to a workbook if it doesn't have that extension, at least initially. Now, in order to see this, I'm going to go to the bottom of the screen and choose in the panel in the lower left, File Explorer, or if I click in there and happen to see it here, I'll just click it. Now, as we look at files, and I'll be looking for one of the files used in this course, for example, I'm going to go…

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