You can password-protect your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to prevent unauthorized people from opening or editing them. If you only block edits, anyone can open your ...

It is possible to create a macro in an Excel sheet that unlock the sheet which is already protected by a password. Users can easily prepare a document in the sheet and then lock it again with a ...

Quite often there is a situation in which you don’t want other users to modify the data stored in your Excel file. It can either be because the data is confidential, or the fact that you simply do not ...

Creating a macro in Microsoft Excel allows you to program automatic tasks into a spreadsheet or template that can contain multiple commands or functions for easy access and use. After these macros are ...

I have a file my organization uses to track all kinds of production data that was created several years ago. It has 3 macros attached – I’m not sure what they really do, but when you open the file ...

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 ...

Ever found yourself locked out of an Excel spreadsheet because you forgot the password or you have been given password protected Excel files from a colleague who was left the business? It’s a common ...

Is a password-protected Word or Excel file really safe from an intruder? The simple answer is sort of. Let me explain: Windows password-protected files are secure as long as a would-be intruder is not ...

XLS files sent via emails appear password protected but aren’t, opening automatically to install malware from compromised macros, according to researchers. Hackers have updated the age-old Excel ...

We’ve all been there—staring at a locked Excel file, unable to make the edits we desperately need because the password is nowhere to be found. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Whether it’s an old file you ...