To improve security Microsoft Office prevents some previous versions of Microsoft Office file types should from being opened, without the help of Protected View in Trust Center. Microsoft Office comes ...

Microsoft Excel will now disable blocked file types from workbook links by default The files will either fail to refresh or show a #BLOCKED error Other safety updates ...

If Excel keeps blocking files from being inserted, chances are the file is blocked by Trust Center, or maybe the workbook or locked. In some situations, we could be dealing with a corrupted file.

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout ...

Malware can exploit your computer and your private information, but only if it manages to install itself. Microsoft Excel files -- and other formats that Microsoft Office applications generate -- can ...

Microsoft has shared more information on what malicious embedded files OneNote will soon block to defend users against ongoing phishing attacks pushing malware. Threat actors create malicious ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...