How to Password Protect Excel Files?

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How to Password Protect Excel Files?

5 August 2020 Ashley S. Miller Specialist of Customer Service Dept.

Summary
Excel files are always around our office work. Many people prefer to encrypt the Excel files for privacy protection. One of the effective solutions is to set password. In this essay, we will talk about how to password protect an Excel file and how to remove password from a file.

Content

Part 1: How to Password Protect Excel Files

Part 2: How to Remove Password from Excel Files

Part 3: Better File Protection from Renee SecureSilo

Part 4: Conclusion

Part 1: How to Password Protect Excel Files

Some people want to set password for Excel without any software installation. They can use the function in Excel. Here are the steps.

1. Open Excel 2010 and click [File] at the upper-left corner.

2. Click [Info] – [Protect Workbook] – [Encrypt with Password].

3. Set the password.

4. Next time when you open the Excel file, you should enter the correct password to unlock the file.

·If you are an Excel 2003 user, you should follow these steps to password protect your file: first, click on [Tools] and then [Options] at the top menu; click the tab [Security], and then set a password in the option [Password to open]; finally, reenter the password and click on [OK] to confirm.

·If you want to encrypt files in Microsoft Office 2007, you should follow these steps: click the Office button at the top left corner and then select [Prepare]; click [Encrypt Document] and enter the desired password when prompted; reenter to confirm the password.

Limit: The method is suitable for the situation that you want to encrypt one file. If you want to password protect dozens of Excel files, it wastes time too much.

Part 2: How to Remove Password from Excel Files

How if you want to remove the password from the Excel file?

Situation 1: You still remember the password.

First, enter the password to open the encrypted file; then, go to [Protect Workbook] and remove the password. These steps are similar between different Microsoft Office versions.

Situation 2: You forgot the password.

You can remove the password with the password cracker, such as AOPR. It only takes a few seconds to crack the password. It is also proved that the encryption function in Excel is not safe at all.

Part 3: Better File Protection from Renee SecureSilo

From the above contents, we’ve known that the files can be cracked easily once it is encrypted with the Microsoft Office function. This method is not safe enough. For better file protection, we suggest Renee SecureSilo, the professional file encryption software.

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Well protection: Due to the private format of the virtual disk and the AES256 algorithm, the encrypted files cannot be cracked down. You can disguise the virtual disk as the other files when it needs to skip the malicious scan. In addition, the software is attached with a floating window where you can close all your virtual disks and the program at any time.

Easy to modify: The virtual disk is similar to USB disk. Users can access data inside immediately and close when unnecessary. Modifying data which is protected with Renee SecureSilo will not waste your time on decompression.

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Here are the steps of using Renee SecureSilo.

1. Download and install Renee SecureSilo. Set a login password and then click on [Encrypt Files] > [Create Silo].

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2. Name for the silo and set a password. After that, click on [Next] to continue.

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3. Set a disk size.

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4. Place files into the silo. You can click the green icon of the floating window and enter the password to open the silo. Then, you can click the orange icon to close the silo. If you don’t want to encrypt the file, you can remove it from the silo. All these operations are very easy.

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5. Within the software, you can click on [Open Silo] or [Close Silo] to open/close the silo.

Part 4: Conclusion

The above contents are about how to password protect the Excel files. We suggest you use Renee SecureSilo to encrypt the files because it is professional, multifunctional, easy to modify and secure. If you want to protect your files away from data leakage, have a try to use Renee SecureSilo.

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