When you receive a excel spreadsheet from someone do you look for hidden tabs?
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I'm out of the loop on this one!
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@T.H.O.U.: you can hide tabs you don't want people to see.. Needless to say, someone found something I didn't want them to see
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I wouldn't think to! Tho I hide irrelevant/background work tabs all the time.
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@BandDmommy: oh no!
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@BandDmommy: Are they just hidden or do you need a password to open them?
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No, I don't usually check - I'm assuming if they're hidden, they're irrelevant!
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Not usually unless I'm looking at the formulas and see it reference a tab that I don't see.
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It would never cross my mind in a million years, unless someone said something like "don't go looking at the hidden tabs, please" in the email. Then I would get curious.
Actually, if there were references in the spreadsheet to tabs I couldn't see, I might would wonder.
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If I notice hidden columns or rows I will expand them but I don't think it would ever occur to me to look for hidden tabs.
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uh oh! i didn't even know this was a thing, but i probably wouldn't include any notes that i didn't want someone else to see in anything i sent, even if i thought they were hidden! i'm totally freaked about stuff like that!
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No I wouldn't think to look for them unless I was trying to figure out a calculation and found references to it.
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Not purposefully. But like others said, if there are references, yes.
There are files that I have intentionally hidden. The tabs are "masked" in that we use white font and protect the cells so that they can't even be clicked on to view the contents of the cells.
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Occasionally if I think there might be extra information that I was to see. For example, a spreadsheet from a supplier. Generally, no though.
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Only if there are formulas and I'm trying to follow the logic...
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Just if there are formulas that I can't trace. When I send out spreadsheets to outside companies, I always copy and paste into a new file with just the values...no formulas. Eliminates the hidden data issues.
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Almost always - I'm in a data driven role and want to ensure I'm not missing something...
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