How to Password Protect Excel 2010 Workbooks

To keep you sensitive information you may want to protect your excel 2010 workbook, worksheet or the whole document. This guide shows you where this is located in the sometimes unfamiliar “ribbon”

Protect Excel 2010

Open the File menu then click Info

Then click Protect Workbook and choose what you want to password

If you choose Encrypt with Password you will then be asked for a password. Finally save you excel document

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11 Comments (Newest on top)

TomCru says:

17/07/2010 at 7:35 am

I found a solution called WitchFile ( http://www.witchfile.com)

how about WitchFile ?

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chuck oliver says:

08/11/2010 at 9:19 pm

This works great, but how does one remove the password protection?

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Kinzoh says:

14/01/2011 at 5:54 pm

This works great, but how can i remove the password protection?

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Big Al says:

10/03/2011 at 12:42 am

to remove password, click on “Encrypt with password”. If file was protected the pop up box will already have the password, so simply clear it.

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Shirls says:

30/09/2011 at 7:04 pm

Thanks Big Al – I spent ages looking for this solution in the help files and finally googled it and found your answer!

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