Protecting Confidential Data

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Wed 20 Feb 2008, 16:42 Delegate Vivienne said...

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Protecting Confidential Data

How do you protect data in a cell and only allow authorised staff to view

Sat 1 Mar 2008, 11:04 Trainer Cress said...

RE: Protecting Confidential Data

You can protect entire workbooks by going to tools>>protection>>protect workbooks. You can put a password in the sheet and only give the password to the staff you want. But you cannot protect a particular cell in the worksheet on its own and not let anyone see it. What you could try is hiding the column where the cell is. Then protect the worksheet with a password. Staff who knew the password would be able to take the protection off and then unhide the cells. Staff who didnt know the password cant take off the protection and then unhide the column.

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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Protecting Confidential Data

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Excel tip:

Converting an American date format to European using Formula