P/word protecting & shared workbooks

[Mr.B]

hi guys,
just upgraded OS to xp pro,running office 2000.
have used xp pro + office 2003 previously.
files are on a client and not networked.
I am wanting to p/word protect opening the file and also
p/word protect opening of a folder. Cannot seem to locate
where the options are to do this. been round and round
the help txt but it's not giving me what I'm seeing. Are
there conflicts with office 2000 and xp pro?
Any help would be received with much gratitude as been at
this all morning with no success. I'm fine with
protecting workbook sheet etc.oh one other thing..if
networked does the share workbook and track changes allow
several people to have the file open and be working on it
at the same time? the txt is very unclear about this.

Best regards,

mr.b

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't think you can use excel to password protect a folder.

But when you do file|saveas, click on Tools|General Options.

There's a spot where you can put a "password to open".

 

[mr.burns]

Dave,

Stunning....thankyou v v much. I had been going back to
tools within the file itself and clicking tools/options
and looking for general options. never even noticed it
there in the save as box. Doh.... On the subject of
protecting a folder - what i meant was just password
protecting any folder....any clues?
having a better day now so hope you are too...
thx.
Mr.B

 

[Gord Dibben]

Mr. B

In Windows XP you don't password protect folders anymore. That's an old
unsecure way to do it.

There are third party apps that will do it if you want.
http://www.baxbex.com/foldershield.html
http://www.winability.com/download/
http://www.fsprolabs.com/hfxp/index.html

In Windows XP you use file permissions to allow or deny access to folders on a
user by user or group basis.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[mr.burns]

Gord,
Thanks a million for your input. I have another post
running which gives an account of user logon conflicts
i'm currently experiencing ..hence the route taking to
lock down certain folders/files while this issue is
resolved. Don't know if it's your area as well but the
post is here -
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?
ICP=GSS3&NewsGroup=microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_adm
in&SLCID=US&sd=GN&id=fh;en-gb;newsgroups

thanks again....
mr.b
burns332004ATaolDOTcom