How to Password Protect an Excel Spreadsheet



In this tutorial, learn how you can password protect a Microsoft Excel workbook.

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  4. Carol Tanting 17/01/2021 Reply

    Hi, do you have a video on how to put password in Google drive ? Thanks

  9. Kim Tiu 02/03/2021 Reply

    how about if i have multiple excel file to encrypt? Is there an easy way for this rather than putting it manually?

  11. Mahamud Abu 04/03/2021 Reply

    To be honest I didn't know how to put the password 😂😂😂

  13. Pixel 21/03/2021 Reply

    What if only 1 tab is password protected? I tried Right Clicking on the tab and clicked on "Unprotect Sheet" a password box popped up. I entered the password and it didn't work.

  15. FormerBookSeller 05/04/2021 Reply

    Great tutorial! Couldn't figure it out while in the workbook but now the light bulb went off over my head – thank you!

  16. Dannish Iman 06/04/2021 Reply

    Thank for the tutorial. You help me with my assignment

  19. Vrushti Doshi 28/06/2021 Reply

    FINALLY SUCH A SIMPLE THING AND IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO FIND THE RIGHT VIDEO

  22. Shabreda Haden 26/07/2021 Reply

    How do you password protect a sheet that within a bigger workbook?

  24. Philippa Morton 09/08/2021 Reply

    Does this work for excel online? Or do you have to open in desktop version each time?

  27. 3yrs Tanisi Jha 07/09/2021 Reply

    Next:Show me how to recover password protected excel file because I forgot the password of an excel file

  31. Sheyreal Ann 01/11/2021 Reply

    Can I put unique password to each sheets I have in my excel file? Example, in my excel file, I have 5 sheets open that contains sensitive data. So I want to put different password for each sheets. Can I do that? Thanks

  33. Palani Arumugam 18/11/2021 Reply

    Thanks Kevin
    I also don't want people to access my sheet
    I'm an expert at Excel. Have a good day!

  36. L Tran 06/12/2021 Reply

    Thank you very much for the video!!!

  42. Naureen S 21/01/2022 Reply

    I don’t get the options to encrypt with password as you state in 1:58

  45. dcallah 25/02/2022 Reply

    DAMN, password protect a WORKSHEET is not the same as password protect a WORKBOOK. Protect a single WORKSHEET of many within a WORKBOOK.

  47. Steve Romine 15/03/2022 Reply

    Instructions work well to password protecct it but now when I open the spreadsheet and enter the password it opens it as a read only document and the auto save function to onedrive cloud does not work. A popup window comes up with instruction that in order to auto save I have to change the document so it can be edited and I have to turn off the encryption. Suggestions?

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