Signed Workbook Permissions

4. Try it: Review the Permissions

When you Sign a Workbook it will be marked as Final in the Permissions.

 

A Signed Workbook has a Digital Signature. It is an electronic seal, like a bee wax seal on letters. The bees wax would be imprinted with the ring of the man who signed and sealed the  document.

 

What Do You See from the Home Ribbon?

A Signed Document will have a security banner at the top under the Ribbons. There is a warning that the document has been Marked As Final. There is also a button to Enable Editing.

 

If anyone edits the Signed Document, the security banner will warn that the signature would be invalid and it will be removed.

 

Keep going...!

File ->Info->Permissions->Protect Workbook->Add a Digital Signature

Exam 77-888: Microsoft Excel Expert 2010

1. Sharing and Maintaining Workbooks

1.1. Apply workbook settings, properties, and data options: Add a Digital Signature