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Connect to Office. Download a file periodically that helps determine system problems When you check the Download a file periodically that helps determine system problems box: You allow a file to be downloaded from Office. Sign up for the Customer Experience Improvement Program When you check the Sign up for the Customer Experience Improvement Program box, you are helping to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of Microsoft Office.

Automatically detect installed Office applications to improve Office. Allow the Research task pane to check for and install new services When you check the Allow the Research task pane to check for and install new services box, you allow the Office program to automatically check for and install new research service.

Allow sending files to improve file validation Applies to Word and Word Starter only. Allow personalization of advertisements in Microsoft Office Starter Applies to Excel Starter and Word Starter only When you check the Allow personalization of advertisements in Microsoft Office Starter box, you allow Microsoft to collect information about your use of the online services and sites provided by Microsoft and its partners. Warn before printing, saving or sending a file that contains tracked changes or comments Applies to Word and Word Starter only.

Store random numbers to improve Combine accuracy Applies to Word only. Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving Applies to Word and Word Starter only.

For more information about the Document Inspector, see the following articles: Remove hidden data and personal information by inspecting documents, presentations, or workbooks. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Notes: This applies to Office version or newer.

Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Choose which apps and services can access your file system by turning individual apps and services settings On or Off.

Not all apps will appear in the list where you can choose which apps can access your file system. To allow or deny file system access for one of these programs, check the settings in the program itself. Privacy Windows 11 Windows 10 More Need more help? Join the discussion.

Was this information helpful? Private Contains sensitive or confidential information, and the visibility of the data source may be restricted to authorized users. It is completely isolated from other data sources. Examples include Facebook data, a text file containing stock awards, or a workbook containing an employee review.

Organizational Limits the visibility of a data source to a trusted group of people. It is isolated from all Public data sources, but is visible to other Organizational data sources. A common example is a Microsoft Word document on an intranet SharePoint site with permissions enabled for a trusted group. Public Gives everyone visibility to the data.

Only files, internet data sources, or workbook data can be marked Public. Examples include data from a Wikipedia page, or a local file containing data copied from a public web page. Privacy Levels may prevent you from inadvertently combining data from multiple data sources, which are set to different levels of privacy such as private and organizational.

Depending on the query, you could accidentally send data from the private data source to another data source that might be outside of a trusted scope. Power Query analyzes each data source and classifies it by the defined level of privacy: Public , Organizational , and Private. This analysis ensures data is not combined if there is undesirable data transfer. This process of data protection can also occur when a query uses a technique called query folding. For more information about query folding, see Handling data source errors.

The Fast Combine options are workbook settings that determine whether Power Query uses your privacy level settings when combining data.