Usually, if you share an Excel spreadsheet with someone, that person is able to freely edit the spreadsheet. In some cases, you may want to send someone a spreadsheet with data but you also want to ...

Even if your business is a sole proprietorship, you may need to share your Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets with your accountant, vendors, customers, government agencies or potential investors.

These options work in Word and Excel 2010 and later, but we’ll be using the Microsoft 365 versions of the two programs for this guide. The ability to mark a document as final and read-only are two ...