How to Secure and Protect MS Excel Workbooks with Password

Secure and protect MS Excel workbooks by following the method described below. Open the Workbook you’d like to secure and protect. Select File > Info > Protect Workbook to display the options available to you: (Click images to enlarge them) (1) Click Mark as Final to freeze your workbook and make it read-only: Click OK…

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How to "Whitelist" a Vendor's Email Address

by Early to Rise Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as “spam”, has become a big problem. It’s reached such proportions that most e-mail services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put blocking and filtering systems to keep these messages out. The systems work… but sometimes they work too well, blocking messages that you have…

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Bad English (or “Scamglish”) Gives Away E-Mail Scams

I’ve yet received another “Lottery Winning Notification” – this time from Microsoft (!). Ho ho ho! There are two items that give away these scams immediately: 1) The domain name of the return link is invariably registered in some foreign country (Hong Kong, Slovenia, Russia, UK, Netherlands, Japan, etc.) but never in the United States.…

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