Google Sheets offers many options to share spreadsheets, while protecting your data. Here's how you can do this.

Google Sheets is a powerful tool for collaborating with your colleagues. But what if you need to hide sensitive information in a Google Sheet file while still giving access to other users?

Fortunately, Google Sheets has robust sharing and privacy features, allowing you to share specific sheets in your file without compromising the privacy of other information.

Here's how you can do that.

If you plan to work with multiple users, you should first know the basics of sharing your Google Sheet file. To share it securely, you must first save the file. When you've done that, follow the steps below.

This will allow users to see and edit the Google Sheets file. However, you shouldn't do this yet if you still haven't finished preparing your file.

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Once you've prepared individual sheets for different users, you can now lock them to an assigned user. That way, you don't have to worry about users messing inputting data for other people. There are the steps to assign unique editors per sheet.

After completing this process, you've now shared the specific sheet with someone else.

Now that you've shared some of the sheets with specific people, you might want to hide other sheets from everyone else. These sheets could contain formulas, notes, or other things you don't want them to see. Luckily, you can easily do that with the instructions below.

With that done, you can now hide the sheets you don't want to share without needing to create a different Google Sheets file.

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Sometimes, you may want to remove a sheet's protection so that all other users can see it. If that is the case, these are the steps you need to follow:

These sheet protection features ensure you can keep the integrity of your data. That way, you're sure that only the designated user can access the sheets you need.

This is also a good solution for tidying up your files. That's because you don't need to create separate files to share with different users, and you can easily link the results from each sheet to the main sheet you can hide from other users.

You get to protect your data with these features from Google Sheets, all without having to pay a cent.

Jowi is a writer, a career coach, and a pilot. He's been using, discovering, and exploring PCs since Windows 95 and was on board the Android bandwagon since Gingerbread. He started occasionally writing in 2015 and transitioned to it full-time in 2020. Jowi finished a university degree with related units in journalism in 2012. But even before he stepped into university, he's been known by his friends and family as the go-to person when anything computer-related requires explanation.

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