Payroll review day is stressful for any HR professional. You are on a call with the VP of Engineering to review end-of-year bonuses for their specific team. You open the master spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets) or your HRIS dashboard (Workday, Gusto, Rippling).

Immediately, the screen fills with data. While looking for the Engineering team, you scroll past the Marketing Director and the Head of Sales. For a split second, their salaries and bonuses are visible to the VP of Engineering. You have just accidentally disclosed sensitive compensation data.

The "Spreadsheet Anxiety"

Most HR professionals try to solve this by creating dozens of "filtered" spreadsheet tabs before every meeting. They copy-paste specific data into temporary sheets just for that one call. This wastes hours of time, creates version control nightmares, and increases the risk of data entry errors.

Contextual Unmasking

There is a better way. With SecurePresent's "Deep Peek" technology, you can keep the entire payroll system blurred by default. Every dollar amount, every social security number, and every home address is visually obfuscated.

When you need to discuss a specific employee, you simply hover your mouse over their specific row while holding the Alt key. This reveals just that cell or row, while keeping the surrounding data (the rows above and below) protected. You can navigate your master database confidently, knowing that only the intended data is ever visible to your audience.