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Tue 20 May 2008, 16:35 Delegate Mary said...

Mary has attended:
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Project Intermediate course

Protection

How do you password protect a workbook?

Thu 22 May 2008, 16:10 Trainer Simon said...

RE: Protection

Hi Mary,

Thank you for your question.

In order to protect a workbook, please follow these instructions:

1. File - Save AS.
2. Name the file and choose the location to save it in.
3. Then click on the Tools menu.
4. Select General options.
5. You can now enter two passwords if you want, one to open the workbook ad the second to modify it.
6. Then save the document.

To remove a password, once the file is opened, follow instructions 1,2,3,4 and highlight the stars in the password field and delete them so the boxes are blank. Then save the document.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

Simon

Excel tip:

Converting an American date format to European using Formula

Excel depending on your local setting will only pick up date values of the dd mmm yyyy oders as date type. If you import data from various sources including America their date order is different with data value in mmm dd yyyy, excel can only treat it as text indicated by left aligning it. To overcome this you have to do the the following.

1. Extract the date components mmm dd yyyy, by using the the Text functions LEFT, MID or RIGHT

2. Reorder dd mmm component and concatenate using "&" in the right order this will create a text string with the date in the right order it then needss to be converted to a value so excel can recognise it.

3. To convert to value encase in TEXT function.

4. Format to desired date format.

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