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How to mark as final in Excel?

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If you do not want others to do any edit or changes in your workbook, and in the meanwhile, you do not want to protect the workbook, how can you do? Now I introduce an easy method for you to solve this problem in Excel.

Mark as final in Excel

Undo mark as final in Excel

Mark as final in Excel

Mark as final will let the readers know this is the final file and make the file is read-only.

1. Enable the Workbook you need, click "File" > "Info" in Excel 2010/2013. See screenshot:

2. In the right section, click "Protect Workbook" and then in the drop-down list, click "Mark as Final". See screenshot:

select Mark as Final option to enable this feature

Tip: In Excel 2007, click "Office" button > "Prepare" > "Mark as Final".

3. Then it will pops out two dialogs for reminding the workbook will be marked as final. See screenshots:

message box to remind the workbook will be marked as final 1
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message box to remind the workbook will be marked as final 2

4. Click "OK" > "OK" to close dialogs. And now the workbook is marked as final and made as read-only.

the workbook is marked as final and made as read-only

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Undo mark as final in Excel

If you want to undo mark as final in a workbook, you can do as follow:

Method 1 Click Mark as Final again

1. Open the file which marked as final, and click "File" >" Info". See screenshot:

2. In the right section, click Protect Workbook and then in the drop-down list, click Mark as Final. See screenshot:

select Mark as Final option to disable this feature

Now the workbook can be edited again.

the workbook can be edited again

Tip: In Excel 2007, click "Office "button >" Prepare" >" Mark as Final".

Method 2 Click Edit Anyway button

1. Open the workbook that is marked as final, and you can see there is a yellow notification above every worksheet of the workbook.

2. Click the "Edit Anyway" button on the notification, then the workbook will exit mark as final.

Click Edit Anyway button to disable the mark as final feature

Note: This method does not work in Excel 2007.

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