Encrypt Exports

Queries export files contain sensitive information, thus these files must be password protected! Instructions on how to encrypt an Excel spreadsheet with a password is described below.

Encrypt Exported Excel Spreadsheet

1. When open the file, there will have a notification to ask you for Enable Editing. 
   
   
   
2. Click the "Enable Editing" button.
   
   
3. Go to File.
   
   
   
4. One the left bar, select "Info".
   
   
   
5. In Info, you will see some options, and we are going to select "Protect Workbook".
   
   
   
6. In the drop-down selection, we are going to click on "Encrypt with Password".
   
   
   
7. After you clicked on "Encrypt with Password", a window will pops up for prompting you a password and confirm you password.
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8. Save the excel file.
   
   
9. Once you completed the process above, the excel file is now encrypted with password. It will prompts you to enter password every time you are accessing the file.