password protect .csv files

I have a .csv file created in Excel 2003 I need to protect from changes to
cells made by any other users. The protection menus and commands all come up
when I try to protect the file, but after it's saved changes can continue to
be made without the password.

Are these .csv files unprotectable? Or is there an additional step?

Thanks so much for any assistance.

jennifer

Jennifer,

A CSV file contains only the data, separated by commas (and maybe some quote
marks as needed). Nothing else. Nothing functional. Only your network or
operating system could restrict access. The file contains nothing like
that -- only raw data. You can change the Windows properties to Read only,
but there's no password, and anyone can reset that. Consider saving it as
an Excel workbook. All users will need Excel (or the free viewer) to be
able to open it, but now it can protected (for what that's worth -- Excel's
security is crackable).

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Earl Kiosterud
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"Jennifer Boe" <Jennifer Boe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:545DD5AA-BD77-4DCB-989D-5E4D875CC665@microsoft.com...
>I have a .csv file created in Excel 2003 I need to protect from changes to
> cells made by any other users. The protection menus and commands all come
> up
> when I try to protect the file, but after it's saved changes can continue
> to
> be made without the password.
>
> Are these .csv files unprotectable? Or is there an additional step?
>
> Thanks so much for any assistance.
>
> jennifer