You don’t want anyone outside your team to be even able to open the file. Let’s say you have a weekly status report of your team members in an Excel file. To control the level of access users should have to an Excel file, use file-level protection. For more information on protecting worksheets, see Protect a worksheet. Once sheet protection is enabled, you can protect other elements such as cells, ranges, formulas, and ActiveX or Form controls. For example, you might want a user to only add rows and columns, or only sort and use AutoFilter. You can specify what exactly a user can do within a sheet, thereby making sure that none of the important data in your worksheet are affected. Worksheet-level: With sheet protection, you can control how a user can work within worksheets. For more information on protecting workbooks, see Protect a workbook. Locking the workbook structure prevents other users from adding, moving, deleting, hiding, and renaming worksheets.
Workbook-level: You can lock the structure of your workbook by specifying a password. Note: To add a digital signature, you need a valid certificate from a certificate authority (CA). For more information, see Add or remove a digital signature in Office files. For more information, see Add or remove protection in your document, workbook, or presentation.ĭigital signature: You can add digital signatures to your Excel file. Restrict Access: If your organization has permissions set up using Information Rights Management (IRM), you can apply any of the available IRM permissions to your document. For more information, see Add or remove protection in your document, workbook, or presentation. Mark as Final: Use this option if you want to mark your Excel file as the final version and want to prevent any further changes by other users. For more information, see Protect an Excel file. Use this option when you need to give Read-only or edit access to different users.
A USER WRITES DOWN DETAILS MARKED AS SECRET PASSWORD
Setting a password to open or modify a file: You specify a password to open or modify a file. This prevents other users from opening the file. You have two choices here:įile encryption: When you choose this option, you specify a password and lock the Excel file. It simply prevents users from modifying locked cells within the worksheet.įollowing are the different options available for protecting your Excel data:įile-level: This refers to the ability to lock down your Excel file by specifying a password so that users can’t open or modify it. Worksheet level protection is not intended as a security feature. You should not assume that just because you protect a workbook or worksheet with a password that it is secure - you should always think twice before distributing Excel workbooks that could contain sensitive personal information like credit card numbers, Social Security Number, employee identification, to name a few. This shows your hidden text.If you forget or lose your password, Microsoft can’t retrieve it for you. Select it and hit Ctrl+Shift+H or untick the”Hidden” field in the Font panel.īut, how do you select hidden text in the first place if you can’t see it? Because hidden text is just normal text with formatting marks applied, you need to display all of the formatting marks. (Not sure what an “anchored object” is? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with our guide to positioning objects in Word.) How Do You Unhide Text? This hides the anchored object at the same time. If your object has a different text wrapping option, but you still want to hide it, you’ll have to hide the paragraph to which the object is anchored. This method only works if your object uses the default text wrapping option of “In line with text,” which is when Word treats an object as just another piece of text.
You hide objects in the same way as you hide text-by selecting them and ticking the”Hidden” field in the Font panel (or using Ctrl+Shift+H).
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