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How to Protect a Workbook in Excel Office 365? Useful Guide!!

When you want to send your Excel worksheet, it’s important to protect the data that you’re sharing. Luckily Excel provides some pretty good tools for preventing people from editing various parts of a workbook. In this tutorial, we will help you to protect a workbook ** in Excel*. Let’s get into this article!! Get an official version of * MS Excel** from the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/excel

Steps to Protect a Workbook:

Please follow the below steps to protect a workbook.

  • First, open the Excel and Click on the “File” tab from the “Ribbon”.

File tab
File tab

  • Here, you need to click the “Info” section from the left navigation sidebar, under that, you can see the “Protect Workbook” option.

Info section
Info section

  • Click the Protect Workbook, it will expand the drop-down list as shown below.

Drop-down list
Drop-down list

  • You need to select the “Encrypt with Password” option from the list.

Encrypt Option
Encrypt Option

  • It will show the “Encrypt Document” window, and here you need to type the password then click the OK button.

Enter password
Enter password

  • After that it will open the “Confirm Password” window, here you need to reenter the password to confirm and click the OK button.

Confirm Password
Confirm Password

  • Finally, your workbook is protected, now you can see the “Protect Workbook” button will be highlighted.

Workbook protected
Workbook protected

  • Next time when you open the file you will need to enter the password.

Need to Enter Password
Need to Enter Password

Conclusion:

Here, we have described the step-by-step procedure to protect a workbook in Excel. Make use of this. If you have any doubts, feel free to share them with us. To learn more, check out Geek Excel

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