IBM Lotus Symphony


Protecting documents

In Lotus® Symphony™ Spreadsheet, you can protect sheets or document from editing by using the Tools > Protect Document command.

To protect a sheet

Do the following steps:

  1. Select the sheet you want to protect.
  2. Select Tools > Protect Document > Sheet. The Protect Sheet dialog box opens.
  3. Enter and confirm your password in the Password and Confirm fields. If you leave them blank, the sheet is protected without a password.

After being protected, the content of the sheet cannot be modified by anyone. To edit the sheet, select Tools > Protect Document > Sheet again. A password is required if you have set one during protecting.

Tip: You can also protect more than one sheet at a time by selecting multiple sheets in the first step. These sheets share a same password.

To protect the document

Do the following steps:

  1. Open the document you want to protect.
  2. Select Tools > Protect Document > Document. The Protect Document dialog box opens.
  3. Enter and confirm your password in the Password and Confirm fields. If you leave them blank, the document is protected without a password.

After the document is protected, you cannot create, rename, delete, move or copy the sheets in it. To unprotect the document, select Tools > Protect Document > Document again. A password is required if you have set one during protecting.

To save protected document

When you are trying to save Microsoft® Excel document protected with passwords as Lotus Symphony Spreadsheet format, the Re-type Password dialog box is opened, and you are required to specify the passwords again.

The same situation happens when you are saving Lotus Symphony Spreadsheet document protected with passwords as Microsoft Excel format.

  1. Select File > Save as.
  2. Choose the format you want to save as and click Save.
  3. If you are saving Lotus Symphony Spreadsheet document as Microsoft Excel format or on the reverse way, the Re-type Password dialog box opens. Click Re-type and specify the passwords. The Re-type button is active only when the sheets or document protected with passwords.

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