It's not a bug as far as MS is concerned. Excel is just not secure and it
isn't intended to be. There are many ways someone can break into a
'protected' sheet.

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| Hi everyone,
|
| This is my problem i have this file which has a lot of info on it and
| obviously certain clients shouldn't see all the info in particular
| columns thus i have protected the spreadsheet and the workbook so that
| nobody can make changes to it, however i noticed recently that if I
| manually copy all of the content from existing spreadsheet and export
| it into a new spreadsheet voila! boom all my hidden info comes up here,
| keep in mind the option for unhide is greyed out too on the protected
| document.
|
| could someone tell me whether this is a software glitch or is there
| anything else perhaps i missed out on?
|
| Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
|