Comments on: How to securely password protect an Excel file

By: srikanth

srikanth — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:53:35 +0000

The Article was very useful …It taught me how to password protect the Excel sheets….:-)

By: Maria Evans

Maria Evans — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:08:08 +0000

The excel protection system has many vulnerabilities although these have been improved from version to version. This website has a useful article relating to your query:

http://www.datasafexl.com/vulnerabilities.htm

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By: Funso

Funso — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:12:55 +0000

Thanks for the article..Was very useful

By: Mubbashir Ali

Mubbashir Ali — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:09:35 +0000

thanks for article, before I do not know how to password protect an Excel file!

By: JP Rao

JP Rao — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:15:09 +0000

Nice tip. I did not know how to do this before.
“Easy to follow steps” make anyone understand the procedure. Thank you.

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By: Ankush

Ankush — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:57:11 +0000

@Kirti : Perhaps you can take a look at the available softwares, just do a general search.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:59:59 +0000

Thanx for this article, it has been of gr8 help.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:51:37 +0000

thank you very much… It helps a lot..

More power…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:27:51 +0000

Yeah, that’s right. Save your passwords in an unencrypted EXCEL DOCUMENT. If IT finds out you get your ass fired quicker than you can new security holes are discovered in Windows. Also, if you think your data is safe in a password protected excel document you’re living in fantasyland.

By: Sergiu

Sergiu — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:57:20 +0000

Thanks!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:12:09 +0000

Thanks, this is a great help

By: kirti

kirti — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:20:00 +0000

i forget my password i want to open my excel file it is important.how can i open it

By: El Di Pablo

El Di Pablo — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:05:29 +0000

careful Sabrina, you are still better off memorizing your password. There are a lot of freely downloadable programs designed to crack Excel passwords.