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Password Protection Excel

Hello,

I am keeping some sensitive information within a Microsoft Excel document. I know there is an in built password protection option however I know this is not that strong a protection.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to password (file or folder level) that they could recommend?

Many thanks,

Regards,

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Danny Child

Truecrypt is the tool of choice for transparent folder protection.

For mailing documents securely, I'd use WinRAR (not WinZip).

Elcomsoft do a long list of password recovery tools, but they don't yet do either of these....

Danny Child

http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://www.rarlab.com/
http://www.elcomsoft.com/products.html

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All I would like to be able to do is either enter a password when accessing a folder in which the file is in or when the file is opened - and it be relatively secure.

I dont think from what I am reading that Truecrypt will allow this?

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thanks x3man, I had not realised that it was much better in 2007/2010. I may well just try this.

DanCh99 - yes I can see how it does it but it, in my opinion, is not very practical or usable. It does not allow you to go to the folder and then be prompted for the password? The process of mounting and demouting etc will be very annoying and if I left it mounted what if someone simply accessed my computer and access the file? unless I have missed something.