Microsoft Excel X for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Save Options & Password Protection

Excel's save options enable you to set up passwords to prevent a document from being opened or from being modified.

To set save options

1.	Choose File > Save As (Figure 1).
2.	In the Save As dialog that appears (Figure 35), click the Options button. Figure 35. The Save As dialog.
3.	Set options in the Save Options dialog (Figure 36) as desired: Always create backup tells Excel to save the previous version of the file as a backup when saving the current version. (The old file is named “Backup of filename”.) Password to open is the password that must be entered in order to open the file. Password to modify is the password ...