Thursday, March 27, 2008

Protecting Excel Data

The concept of "protection" gets a lot of attention in the Excel newsgroups and forums. It seems that many users want to learn how to protect their workbooks from being copied or modified. Excel has several protectionrelated features.

Worksheets often contain numerical information that is confidential in nature, such as financial or payroll data. In today's world of electronic snooping, it's up to you to protect your work against prying eyes. Excel provides a large number of security tools such as password protection, hiding sensitive worksheet areas, or locking data against unwanted changes.

This tutorial is about the security concerns surrounding Excel workbooks. We will show you many distinctive protection methods.

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