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fjbruni
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Jan 21, 2020

Saving an Excel file as a password-protected pdf

I have been using Excel in Office 2016 (and earlier versions of Excel) for many years on Windows 7.  I recently upgraded to Win 10.  I have an Excel file that is password protected.  For years I have...
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fjbruni
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Jan 21, 2020

Abiola1 

Hi Abiola,

Thanks for the reply.  My problem is not with the password-protected Excel file.  My problem is with the pdf file.  When it saves as a pdf, the password protection is eliminated.  If I want to pay Adobe an exorbitant fee, I can rent the function on Adobe, but I would rather have it come through as part of Excel.

As I said, I have used the “Save As PDF” function on Excel for years, and it has always kept the password used on the Excel file.  Now, after installing Windows 10 on my computer, it doesn’t.

Frank

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BobBloemen
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Feb 14, 2022

fjbruni - just ran into the same issue.  In Word I can save to PDF and password protect it, but in Excel I can't.  Did you ever figure out how to do it?

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    Len7700
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    May 27, 2022

    BobBloemen After saving it as a PDF, upload and download it from this website to password protect it:  https://smallpdf.com/protect-pdf 

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