Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office is a book that helps you improve document and email security in Microsoft Office and Windows. Works for Office 2010, Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP in one volume.
Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office
A practical guide to the many options available in Office and Windows for protecting your information from prying eyes, theft and deliberate attack.
by Peter Deegan - Award winning Editor-in-Chief of the Office Watch newsletters and many Office related books. 		Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office - A practical guide to the many options available in Office and Windows for protecting your information from prying eyes, theft and deliberate attack.
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Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office

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“Protecting your information from prying eyes, theft and deliberate attack”

So much important information is stored on our computers yet often they are poorly protected. You can walk up to a computer and get to bank account details, budgets, salary info, tax returns as well as much more personal messages.

This ebook focuses on using the security and encryption options available within Microsoft Office and Windows. There are many, often expensive, security options sold but most people don’t need them. We show you how to use what is already in Windows and Office for reasonable security.

There is practical, step-by-step, information that you can use right away.

We’ll tell you not only how to secure your data but also how it can be revealed with or without your knowledge. Knowing how information can be unlocked is important in case something goes wrong (eg a password is forgotten) and also so you can judge how secure a feature or option really is.

Sending digitally signed and encrypted messages can involve helping the receiver understand what’s going on. This ebook has some examples of how signed messages appear (or not) in various email clients.

We’ve been working with computers and Office for a long time – we’ve seen good security turn around and damage people and companies badly. There’s a potential downside to excessive security and we’ll warn of those pitfalls.

There’s often a lot of focus on communication security like secure web sites but less on vulnerabilities on an individual computer. We have a look at how to protect your computer from prying eyes, the accidental opportunist and the deliberate hacker.

Features

  • Password locking Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents in Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010.
  • How to try unlocking a password protected document if you forget the password
  • Some password tricks for MS Office than can make the document considerably harder to crack.
  • Making Office XP and Office 2003 documents more secure.
  • Restricting access to documents so only certain people can edit them.
  • What’s inside your documents that you might not want others to see.
  • Where copies of a document might be hiding – deleting a file isn’t that simple.
  • Get a FREE digital certificate to send secure and encrypted emails from Outlook.
  • Sending emails that people can be sure come from you and not an online impersonator.
  • Sending encrypted emails that only you and the receiver can read.
  • Options for securing your Outlook data, Outlook emails, OneNote and the new Office Web Applications.
  • Tips on making stronger passwords that are harder to guess or crack.
  • Passwords you should avoid and, in same cases, are explicitly banned.
  • The features you can use for free in Windows to secure your computer.
  • A detailed look at Bitlocker, the Windows feature to encrypt your entire hard drive.

  • Wireless networks are easily hacked, we have tips on securing your base station and secure computing on public wireless networks.

Coverage

· Office 2010

· Office 2007

· Office 2003

· Office XP (Word 2002 etc)

Including:

· Word

· Excel

· PowerPoint

· Outlook

· OneNote

· Office Web Applications

For users with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7

About the author

Peter Deegan has been the Editor-in-Chief and co-creator of the popular Office Watch (www.office-watch.com) series of free email newsletters since they started in 1996. He has written several acclaimed computer books Organizing Outlook Email, Clever Outlook Contacts and Effective Outlook Calendars plus Eye-Catching Signs with Word and Christmas Cheer with Office (with MaryJane Almer). He's the winner of a Computer Press Association award and nominee in another year. Peter loves live theatre, good movie or TV drama, innovative comedy. He is addicted to the written word in any form and his new Kindle has only fed that addiction. When he's not delving into the dark secrets of Windows and Office, Peter travels widely, has visited over 195 countries and can be found typing away in airplanes, airports, cruise ships, café's and hotels across the world.

Also by the author:

Organizing Outlook Email

Clever Outlook Contacts

Effective Outlook Calendars

Office Backup Handbook

Formatting Magic with Word

Eye-Catching Signs with Word (with MaryJane Almer)

Christmas Cheer with Office (with MaryJane Almer)

Valentine’s Day with Word (with MaryJane Almer)

Here's the Table of Contents for Privacy and Security in Microsoft Office:

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  • Introduction

    Features

    Coverage

    About the author

    Password Protected Documents

    Setting a password

    Word 2010 & Word 2007

    Word 2003 and Word 2002( XP)

    Excel 2010 and Excel 2007

    Excel 2003 & Excel 2002 (XP)

    Powerpoint 2010 & PowerPoint 2007

    Powerpoint 2003 & PowerPoint 2002 (XP)

    Opening Encrypted Document

    Changing the Password

    Decrypting the Document

    Word 2007 password entry bug

    Stopping conversion prompts

    Office 2010 password rules

    Encryption Standards

    Office 2007 & Office 2010

    Office 2003 and Office XP

    Under the hood

    Password Recovery

    Free Tool

    Other Tools

    Inside your documents

    What is ‘meta data’

    Why it matters

    Meta-data

    Hidden Text

    Excel hidden rows and columns

    Powerpoint off-slide content

    Headers / Footers

    Watermarks

    Custom XML

    Comments

    Remove

    Tracking / Revisions

    Remove

    Versioning

    Remove

    Invisible Content

    Removing all hidden information

    One for you, one for them

    Office 2003 and Office XP

    Office 2007

    Office 2010

    The ‘Save As’ options

    PDF

    Office 2007 & Office 2010

    Office 2003 and previous

    Save or Print?

    Where is the document hiding?

    Recycle Bin

    Hard Drive

    Backups

    Temporary Files

    Browser temporary files

    Hibernation file

    Sharing a file

    Network Shares

    Outlook

    Outlook temporary files

    CD – DVD - Removable drives

    Indexing services

    Print Spool

    Printouts

    Secure emails

    Difference between signed and encrypted email

    Signed messages

    Encrypted messages

    Getting a personal certificate

    Outlook 2007 & Outlook 2010

    Outlook 2003 & Outlook 2002 (XP)

    Export your certificate

    Keep it safe

    Import your certificate

    Expiry date for certificate

    Revoking a certificate

    Where to get a Personal Certificate

    Comodo

    Geotrust

    Verisign

    CoSign

    Chosen Security

    via Outlook

    Saving an incoming certificate

    Certificates in a Contact

    Contacts list with certificates

    Sending a signed message

    Individual messages

    Outlook 2010

    Outlook 2007

    Outlook 2003

    Outlook 2002 (XP)

    Global setting

    Outlook 2010 & Outlook 2007

    Outlook 2003 & Outlook 2002 (XP)

    Signed messages at the receivers end

    Outlook

    Outlook Express / Windows Live Mail

    Gmail

    Yahoo Mail

    Apple Mac

    Apple iPhone / Ipod Touch

    Windows Mobile

    Outlook Web Access

    Others

    When signed messages go bad …

    Sending an encrypted message

    Individual messages

    Outlook 2010

    Outlook 2007

    Outlook 2003

    Outlook 2002 (XP)

    Global setting

    Encrypted email problems

    Can’t send an encrypted message

    S/MIME receipts

    Which encryption algorithm?

    Request permission to use a key

    Saving a certificate from a broken message

    Under the hood

    Secure email attachments

    Using Gmail to test signed and encrypted emails

    Reading encrypted emails without an email client

    Outlook 98, Outlook 2000 and secure email

    Secure email and spam

    Signed email recommendations

    Secure Email is messy …

    … and Outlook could be a lot better.

    Outlook Security

    Data file security

    Secure Password Authentication

    Encrypted connections

    Authenticated & Encrypted Emails

    OneNote

    Office Web Applications

    Web Security

    Sharing

    Who can access the files?

    Changing your Windows Live login

    Passwords

    Strong Passwords

    Tricks for Strong Passwords

    The downside of strong passwords

    Weak Passwords

    So common they are banned

    Characters to avoid

    Know what’s allowed

    Passwords in Microsoft Office

    Storing your passwords

    Outlook

    OneNote

    Word

    Lost passwords

    Microsoft’s policy

    Third Party products

    Non-reversible encryption

    Windows security features

    Windows Login

    Password Login

    Fingerprint login

    Microsoft Fingerprint Reader

    Smart Card

    Screen Locking

    Encrypting File System

    Enabling EFS

    Disabling EFS

    Backup Certificate

    BitLocker

    What is Bitlocker?

    Who has it?

    System Requirements

    Trusted Platform Module

    Bitlocker authentication options

    The recovery key

    The downside of Bitlocker

    What it won’t protect

    Drive Preparation Tool

    Bitlocker step by step

    Bitlocker in Vista

    Adding a PIN to Bitlocker

    Enhanced PIN

    Without TPM module

    Manage Bitlocker

    Stopping Bitlocker

    BitLocker ToGo

    Step by Step

    Turn off Bitlocker To Go

    Bitlocker to go Reader for Vista and XP

    Bitlocker with iPod and other devices

    Recovery Password viewer for Active Directory

    Bitlocker Repair Tool

    Bitlocker alternatives

    Restricting Editing

    Restrict Formatting / Editing / Protect document

    Word 2003, Word 2007 & Word 2010

    Formatting Restrictions

    Editing Restrictions

    Start Enforcement

    Word 2003

    Protecting an Excel Worksheet

    Locking needs protection

    Locking an entire worksheet

    Other locking options

    Hidden cell attribute

    Lock only a few cells on a worksheet

    Locking and color

    Allow specific users to edit ranges

    Indexing and Privacy

    Encrypted documents

    Individual documents / folders

    Indexing cache

    Rebuilding the Index

    Certificates

    What are digital certificates

    Certificate names

    More information

    Wireless Network Security

    Base Security

    When you’re out

    Miscellany

    Signing documents

    Information Rights Management

    Steganography

    Endnotes

    Ebook power

    Printing

    Navigation

    Table of Contents

    Bookmarks

    Pages

    Find

    Links

    How to get your Office Watch e-books

    Feedback

    How we made this e-book

    Revision History

    Credits

    While writing …

    Copyright Notice

    Office Watch ebooks

    Appendix

    Banned Passwords