You can have Excel make a spreadsheet in read only format for others, so that people can read its contents but not edit them, or you can enforce other content restrictions.

There are many reasons you might want to protect an Excel worksheet with Read-only mode. Maybe you don't want someone to erase data from a workbook accidentally, or you want to make sure a file is ...

If you have sensitive data you'd like to keep from prying eyes in a Microsoft Excel file, the easiest way to protect it is with Excel's built-in password tools.