Office 2013 Bug Report : Protecting sheets in Excel 2013 is useless.

Using Protecting sheets in Excel 2013 is useless , if you copy the files to another PC with 2007 office installed the sheets turn unprotected without asking for password, i have tried this in 4 PCs and same result. regards

I'm sorry but I can't reproduce this issue.
I created a workbook with excel 2013, protected one worksheet, then moved it to another PC with excel 2007,the worksheet was still protected. Please refer to the screenshot below.

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Hi,
First, I want to confirm with you that whether you install Office via MSI or Click to Run.
Only volume-licensed versions of Click-to-Run installations can be customized using the Click-to-Run Admin Tool. Retail versions of Click-to-Run, however, do not support the use of the Admin
Tool or provide any user interface based customizations to the product. These versions, for example, do not allow the user to choose what applications or features to not install or even the location of the installation files.
If you used MSI installation, then check to see the steps in the link below:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/install-or-remove-individual-office-programs-and-components-HA010354261.aspx
Note: We can’t remove Office programs individually after the suite has been installed. You must uninstall Office completely, and then reinstall it using a custom installation.
Also, here’s a link about Office Customization Tool changes in Office 2010, the
Office Customization Tool is part of the Setup program and is the primary tool that administrators use to customize an Office 2010 client installation:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2010/01/05/office-customization-tool-changes-in-office-2010.aspx
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Excel 2013 hangs while trying to open a file from network share

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I am having issue opening excel file from a network share. it happens randomly, the file opens and hangs abruptly. Nothing happens after that ( we can only move the cursor), if we click on the excel sheet we get a beep sound. after i kill the excel process
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Hi Suren424,
Since your first image showed that "To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel." Please go to this path (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Action Center\Problem Reports)
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Power View not showing on opening workbook in Excel 2013

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Hi Paul,
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I am having the same problem:
let me share my answers to your questions:
Where did the member use the Excel file? Local disk, SharePoint, File server, or network shared disk?
LOCAL DISK
Does the issue occur in the special file or every file?
NO HAPPENS IN ANY FILE, EVEN A BLANK NEW FILE
Which Office version is the file created? Excel 2013 or early? If it is XLS format, please try to convert to XLSX to test.
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Does the file have some macros?
NO
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Hello Daniel,
thank you very much for your reply, it is really appreciated.
We have SAP GUI 7.30 Version 7300.3.9.1084 Build 1496147 Patch Level 9 on the test machine. This one should be the latest available version, am I right?
The issue is a little bit different from the ones described in the SAP notes you suggested. The data is getting "correctly" displayed inplace, but Excel is also getting called up in the same time, and an additional emtpy sheet is displayed, which gets in the focus, disturbing the user. It is just like described in the SAP notes 1425448 and 1567380
To 1425448 (Solution Point 2 below): this is our standard setting, and it does not help us.
To 1567380 (Prerequisites): there is no macro in our sheet.
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How is it on your side, could you please run the standard report (EXCEL, checkbox for inplace set, then Enter) to confirm that the problem exists?
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Why does data validation not disappear immediately on protected sheet, bug?

I have provided a link to a workbook.
Cell A1 contains data validation. The macro contains one sub that removes the data validation from Cell A1. However, the data validation won't be removed until you first run the macro and then click on another cell and then click on A1 again.
However, if the sheet was not protected, data validation would get removed immediately by the macro, without the need to navigate to a different cell.
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Hi JP3O,
Base on my test in Office professional Plus 2013 (15.0.4569.1506), it works fine.
Check the worksheet is protected
Select A1, the dropdown icon will display
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Desktop: Generic, Windows 7 64bit and MSOffice 2013 Pro 64bit
phillfri

Hello Phil,
Command bars were deprecated and shouldn't be used any longer. Instead, you need to use the Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) instead. You can read more about the new UI in the following series of articles in MSDN:
Customizing Context Menus in Office 2010
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
As a workaround you can add a custom control to the context
menu with the getEnabled or getVisible callback which will be invoked before the context menu is shown.

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