Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Cause Remote Code Execution

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-009 – Critical

Version: 1.0

General Information

Executive Summary

This security update resolves a privately reported and a publicly disclosed vulnerability. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if the user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

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Page Break Preview in Office 2007

During many of the training sessions I give, a common question has been where the “Page Break Preview” option has been hidden in Office 2007.

Many people used to access it from the button on the top of the print preview screen (Excel 2003 and prior). It is longer there.

It can now be found in one of two places.

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