Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.

Quite often there is a situation in which you don’t want other users to modify the data stored in your Excel file. It can either be because the data is confidential, or the fact that you simply do not ...

Usually, if you share an Excel spreadsheet with someone, that person is able to freely edit the spreadsheet. In some cases, you may want to send someone a spreadsheet with data but you also want to ...

Protecting a worksheet in Excel 2003 prevents others users from editing it. For example, if you have tracked and charted your business's sales on a sheet, you will want co-workers to access the sheet ...

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are programs that allow users to arrange and make sense of a great deal of data. This information can be ordered into neat, color-coordinated columns and rows (using ...

Enter the password and note it in a secure place. How to password protect an Excel workbook Your email has been sent At the file level, you can password protect an ...

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We’ve all been there—staring at a locked Excel file, unable to make the edits we desperately need because the password is nowhere to be found. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Whether it’s an old file you ...

I have a file my organization uses to track all kinds of production data that was created several years ago. It has 3 macros attached – I’m not sure what they really do, but when you open the file ...