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Protecting Workbooks and Worksheets

Excel gives you the ability to share your workbooks over the Web, via a corporate intranet, and by copying files for other users to take with them on business trips. An important part of sharing files, however, is ensuring that only those users you want to have access to the files can open or modify them. For example, The Garden Company might have a series of computers available on the sales floor so that sales associates can look up prices and inventory information. While those computers are vital tools in making sales, it wouldn’t help the company to have customers, even those with good intentions, accessing ...