How to Password Protect a Microsoft Excel Document

The data you store in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can often be confidential. For this reason, there is an option in Excel that will allow you to protect the document with a password and thus ensure the security of your data.

Watch our video tutorial where we show you how to password protect a Microsoft Excel document using Windows 10.

Video Transcript:

1. How to Password Protect a Microsoft Excel Document
2. Click on File
3. Click on Save As
4. Choose where you want to save the document
5. Click on Tools and then on General Options…
6. You can choose whether you want to set a password only when the document is opened (Password to open), only when it is modified (Password to modify) or both at once.
7. Click on OK
8. Now we have to confirm the password. First enter the password to open the document and click on OK
9. Enter the password to modify the document and click on OK
10. Click on Save

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