Password Protection

To the best of my knowledge (which is on and off as of lately), you may only password protect files and folders if you have the correct privileges. If you do password protect it for numeous users, you need to assign group privileges to that file orfolder. I hope this answers your question.

Frank...

When you save an excel file, you can add an option where you can enter a password. After that you need to enter that password when you want to open that file. This does't have anything to do with the OS you are using. On NT you can restrict access to files or directories depending on the user who has logged in.

Also note, you can only password protect your NT files and folders (at the server level) if your NT drives are formatted NTFS. The file and directory restrictions are very limited on FAT drives.

Answer #2 is correct - you must password protect the file from within Excel. Open the file, go to Tools, Protection, and choose the appropriate option (go to Help for more detailed information on which option may be right for you).

Answer #2 is the right way to password-protect an excel file. However if you wish to protect a folder on a NT server, go with answer #3.

The best way to answer this question is with another question. What level of security are you looking for?

Excel security is application security only.

You can protect an Excel workbook from within Excel by utilizing the password options. This options allow you to protect the workbook to read only or modify. When you save the file click on "tools" then "general options" and type in the password by the option(s) you want.

Basically this is a preshared secret between you and other users. However, The password optoins is not 100% secure. Companies like http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html offer prorams to break Excel passwords.

NT Security allows access to shared resources on a file server. These resources can be storage systems and broken down into areas like directories and files.

If you are utilizing NTFS file system on NT you can protect folders and/or files to individule login and/or group of logins. Utilizing FAT under NT gives some limitations. By utilizing theC2 option within NT

Answer #2 and #4 are correct. Doing both ways will provide high protection. First, you protect with the password so when you want to open the excel file it will ask you a password to open and to modify otherwise it will say READ-ONLY. The second is to provide the password inside the Excel file itself, by doing only this way a user can open the Excel file but can't modify it. You need the password to unprotect that Excel file. In conclusion doing both ways is the better solution.

The excel part is easy and has been answered by every other person here. Besides hiring guards with shotguns to hover over the shoulders of users to "restrict access", you will probably have to use a third party app if you dont have pwd setting access rights on the NT system.

I think what you are asking is if files with excel extensions can be protected on a server where there are other file types too. If so I am not aware of any such facility. I would suggest that you create a folder that is solely for the use of Excel files and then password protect that completely

Assuming the NT server has an NTFS disk partition which is most probable. One way to protect data on an NT server is to apply permissions to the folder. If you have a shared drive or personal drive letter, create a folder on the desired drive. Rightclick on the folder. Left click on properties. Left click on permissions. Left click on add. In the add users and groups box look for the group you belong in. If you don't know check with the Lan Administrator. Let's say you are an ordinary user. Highlight Users. Left click on members. Find your name and highlight it. In the local group membership box find your name and highlight it. Left click on add. For the type of access left click on full control. Left click on OK. Highlight the group Everyone and left click on Remove.
Left click on ok. Left click on ok again. You have successfully applied permissions to the folder. Only an administrator can open the folder besides you and anyone else that you have added to the permission list. You might also check on th

If your looking for a transportable protection. IE.. E-mailing to someone or simply throwing on the network in your group folder and only want certian people to be able to open then I recomend using WinZip and select to add a password so to unZip the password will be requested. Oh and this will go with ALL file types. That is since WiZip changes to *.zip

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Good Luck

Redmond, WA

I'm not sure if this will be helpful but I use PGP to protect individual files I don't want read. This system is usualy used for e mail but could be used by a workgroup. As an example I put all my user id's and passwords in a Word file and encrypt it because I can't remember my name some days!

Yes it is possible however the ewasiest
way to use industrial strength encryption
or just password protection is to get hold
of a readily available program called PGP
which will enable you to encrypt anything,
Excellent program used it myself. Fully
compatible with your operating system
and doesn't slow it down!

If you don't use NTFS on the server, you could always create a new shared directory specificaly for this file (or project), and set a password on that.

Your answer is simple:Yes you can.For the individual document when you go to "Save As" click on "tools" then "General Options", you will see the password settings at in the lower left corner.A few of the other answers were right on, but some of you-if you dont know the answer,dont confuse the questioner with mumbo-jumbo--gees.

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