How to Protect a Workbook in Excel Office 365? Useful Guide!!
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Published: 2021-01-26 08:44:03

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title: How to Protect a Workbook in Excel Office 365? Useful Guide!!
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When you want to send your Excel worksheet, it’s important to protect the data that you’re sharing. Luckily Excel provides some pretty good tools for preventing people from editing various parts of a workbook. In this tutorial, we will help you to [**protect a workbook**](https://geekexcel.com/protect-multiple-worksheets-at-a-time-in-excel-office-365/) ** in Excel**. Let’s get into this article!! Get an official version of ** MS Excel**  from the following link: [https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/excel](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/excel)
## Steps to Protect a Workbook:

Please follow the below steps to protect a workbook.

- First, open the Excel and Click on the **“File”** tab from the **“Ribbon”**.

![File tab](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/File-tab.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21406">File tab</figcaption>

- Here, you need to click the **“Info”** section from the left navigation sidebar, under that, you can see the **“Protect Workbook”** option.

![Info section](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Info-Tab.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21407">Info section</figcaption>

- Click the Protect Workbook, it will expand the **drop-down** list as shown below.

![Drop-down list](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Drop-down-list-7.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21408">Drop-down list</figcaption>

- You need to select the **“Encrypt with Password”** option from the list.

![Encrypt Option](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Select-Encycro.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21409">Encrypt Option</figcaption>

- It will show the **“Encrypt Document”** window, and here you need to type the password then click the **OK** button.

![Enter password](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Enter-password.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21410">Enter password</figcaption>

- After that it will open the **“Confirm Password”** window, here you need to reenter the password to confirm and click the **OK** button.

![Confirm Password](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Confirm-Password.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21411">Confirm Password</figcaption>

- Finally, your workbook is protected, now you can see the **“Protect Workbook”** button will be **highlighted**.

![Workbook protected](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Workbook-protected.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21412">Workbook protected</figcaption>

- Next time when you open the file you will need to enter the password.

![Need to Enter Password](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Promt-password.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-21413">Need to Enter Password</figcaption>

## Conclusion:

Here, we have described the step-by-step procedure to **protect a workbook in Excel**. Make use of this. If you have any **doubts,** feel free to share them with us. To learn more, check out **[Geek Excel](https://geekexcel.com/)**

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