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Just trying to password protect documents that I create in Excel Starter edition. How do I do that? Interesting that I cannot simply find that answer in the help section of the application itself. No answer was offered there.
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Just trying to password protect documents that I create in Excel Starter edition. How do I do that? Interesting that I cannot simply find that answer in the help section of the application itself. No answer was offered there.
Hi,
Excel starter doesn't support that, you'll have to upgrade.
Thank you for your answer Mike H
A password protected Excel worksheet can easily be bypassed, it doesnt require any deep hacking, and the methods can be easily found in any search
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