About restricting of viewing excel file other than specific people

Kuronuma 250 Reputation points
2024-08-28T09:30:22.6733333+00:00

I want to restrict users to view excel file other than specific people

only specific people can access file and when the other users tries to open other than specific people they should not access or open that file

Is it possible???

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  1. AllenXu-MSFT 24,951 Reputation points Moderator
    2024-08-29T02:00:01.1833333+00:00

    Hi @Kuronuma,

    Do you want to restrict users to view excel file in SharePoint?

    You can create unique permissions for an Excel file so that you can restrict specific people to view an excel file regardless of what permissions users have in the library or site.


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  2. Kuronuma 250 Reputation points
    2024-08-29T02:53:22.0133333+00:00

    @AllenXu-MSFT

    Thank you for the reply

    but the problem here is Excell file is my local file of onedrive rather sharepoint

    and I did try to add user on manage access but when I share a file to user A who has edit permission he can able to send to to user C which is not my requirement but I have verify that C cannot send it to D

    Although I have stop sharing and only add A to manage access but C can also see the file which was problem

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