LockXLS

Editors' ReviewDownload.com staffAugust 20, 2015LockXLS offers several solutions for protecting your Excel data. With Lock XLS, you can add password protection or more complex security measures to your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It's a particularly handy tool for helping businesses secure sensitive data.Lock XLS looks like a useful program for companies or individuals wanting to protect spreadsheet data from malicious or accidental tampering or limit access to confidential information. The program's interface is clean, simple, and easy to navigate. LockXLS comes with a helpful few sample files that speed up the learning process. An extensive built-in Help manual explains the program's features step by step. We were able to get up and running with the program by briefly consulting the Help file and the program's examples. The program offers several different solutions for "locking" documents, everything from simple password protection to options for more detailed and specific user access. There are also options to lock or hide parts of spreadsheets with a feature that makes your formulas invisible to viewers. You can even prevent users from copying data into existing spreadsheets, which is a handy feature that can help prevent data from being accidentally overwritten. Users should be able to figure out how to protect their spreadsheets with LockXLS in no time.This is a 15-day trial version of the software. This program would be an asset to anyone wanting to protect the security and integrity of their Excel files, and we recommend it.