How to password protect your excel document!

Security is one of the most important aspect of both online and offline applications. Especially when it comes to confidential and critical documents I don’t leave any stone unturned to protect them. Today we’ll see how to password protect your Excel documents. I am sure, most of us who maintain their daily budgets using Excel will be more than interested in protecting their spending history from being accessible to someone using their computer.

Excel comes with good options to protect your files. However, it’s also pretty easy to crack the encryption if someone has access to that file. But we’ll save the cracking of a password protected excel document for some other day. Today we’ll see how to password protect your excel document. It’s a good idea to protect the file even before you have started working on it.

1. Open the excel document that you want to protect.

2. Click the office-orb icon on the left top.

3. Go to Prepare->Encrypt Document.

4. Make sure to enter a strong password.

5. You’ll have to re-enter the password.

6. Once you have finished working and editing your excel file, save the file.

7. Now you can close your excel document.

Next time someone opens the file, they’ll be asked to enter the password. Make sure that you remember the password of your file to access it later. I hope this will help you protect your excel document from unauthorized access.