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.

Excel allows you to lock specific areas of a sheet with a password or protect the entire workbook. You can also set an Excel ...

Most folks have a few documents–legal forms, business records, account spreadsheets, etc.–they’d like to protect from prying eyes. Here’s a little-known fact: Word and Excel let you assign passwords ...

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 ...

You never know when one of your files might reach someone it wasn't intended to reach—perhaps through an email forward, a USB stick left behind on a desk, or maybe ...

You can't edit or copy the contents of a protected Excel worksheet unless you first unlock the protection. If unlocking the worksheet doesn't require a password, or ...

Microsoft will soon begin disabling Excel 4.0 XLM macros by default in Microsoft 365 tenants to protect customers from malicious documents. Excel 4.0 macros, or XLM macros, were first added to Excel ...