Share workbook and track changes

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With Excel built-in tools you can easily work together on workbooks and monitor who, when and what changes made. E.g., track project status and tasks.

   1.   Choose Tools -> Protection.

Protect in Excel 2003

   2.   Click Protect and Share Workbook... that brings up a dialog box with only one box you can check, to prevent those sharing the workbook from turning off change tracking.

Protect Shared Workbook in Excel 2003

You can enter a password that they'll have to know before they can do so.

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How to protect spreadsheets

How to protect spreadsheets

You can significantly reduce the number of errors in data entry in Excel by protecting changes of specific spreadsheets (worksheets) and cells.
Protecting workbook elements

Protecting workbook elements

Much like as you can protect elements of each Excel spreadsheet (see Protecting spreadsheet elements for more details), you can protect structure of the sheets in the workbook, prohibiting renaming, moving and other operations.
Review tracked changes

Review tracked changes

If Excel is set to display changes on screen, you can use the technique of hovering the mouse pointer over a cell to see the change made. This technique tends to be useful only when you've tracked changes to just a handful of cells.