Microsoft Excel - Whitelist Safe Websites to Avoid Opening Excel Documents in Protected View

[Guest Hunter Delong]

My role requires me to review a variety of financial data. The ERP that my organization employs is an in-browser web service (Dynamics 365 Business Central). This means that any time I want to pull a table, list, report etc... the document must first open in "Protected View". One day enough was enough, and I decided to disable this feature all together in Excel. I operated for about a full day before informing my superiors and our IT team of my actions. I was told that disabling this feature posed too much of a risk to our organization, so I enabled the feature once more. But let me tell you,

 

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