I still have some free time left on my online help so I contacted them. I
received a response from one of Microsoft's representatives. First he told
me how to password protect a sheet or a workbook, which I already knew how to
do, and then he told me how to make a file read-only. With Excel 2007, it's
actually done outside of the software using these steps:

Find the file on your hard drive, disk or CD and then:

Right click on the file then select Properties.
Check the box Read-only, then click on OK.
If you use this protection, to make any changes to this file you would have
to uncheck the Read-only box

I still don't know why Excel's help menu references icons that don't even
exist, hopefully it's something they'll fix in the future. Now that I have
found the answer, I hope this second post of mine, answering my own question,
will help others.



"happycat" wrote:

The responses to this have been for 2003 and I need help for Excel 2007. The
help function in Excel 2007 says to:

"On the Review tab, click Protect Document. Select Restrict Formatting and
Editing," but those icons don't even exist under my review tab. Has anyone
else had this problem?