subject: Excel Password Protection - The Easy Way To Password Protect An Excel Document [print this page] Keeping an excel file safe is a concern for many people. You won't want to let others open you files and view the important information and confidential data that you save in it. This article is to tell you how to password protect your important excel documents.
Microsoft Office allows its users to set password for excel files and stop other people from viewing the information in the files. Only people who know the password can open and make changes to the files. To set a password to your excel files, just follow the steps below:
1. Open the excel document that you want to protect.
2. Click "File" on the top menu.
3. Click "Save as".
4. In the opening window, click "Tools".
5. Select "General Options" in the drop down list.
6. Enter the password that you want to use to protect the document and click "OK".
7. Rename the file and select the locations that you want to save. If you don't want to make change to the location and file name, just click "OK".
Then you successfully set a password to protect the excel file. Anyone who wants to open it will enter the right password. That will prevent others from viewing your privacy and sensitive information in the document.
But setting a password doesn't guarantee 100% protection to the file. Firstly, the file is still visible on your hard drive. Anyone who can get access to your computer will be able to see the file and copy it to Flash Drive or Mobile Hard Drive. If that happens, all the information in the file is probably exposed.
There are many programs can crack the password that you set to your excel file. And there are websites offer password recovery services. These websites can easily unlock a password protected office file within minutes. Setting a password is not safe enough. As long as the file is visible, your privacy and sensitive information is still at risk.
The best way to protect your files is use Data Protection Software to hide and lock them. Good protection software will allow you to hide and password protect all the files that you want to protect.
Most of the software will allow you to easily add files to the protected list. The Added files will be invisible and hidden from any other ones. No one but you can see the added files in the protected list. You don't need to worry about the file being seen or unauthorized access. Now you just need choose one and use it on your computer.
