What do you want to "protect it for or from" ? You can make it read
only in the operating system Windows Explorer. You can password protect
it in Windows XP compressed folders. you can encrypt it in the NTFS
filing system. see Windows Help for more information regarding those
features/options.

joed wrote:

I have an excel file in CSV format but when i try to protect it- it states
CSV may contains features that are not compatible with -----do you want to
keep the workbook in this format---- I have to click yes because my gps wont
read the file. but if i click yes it will not protect. I tried many way to
protect this csv file but it wont. any ideas???