There's no foolproof way. The best thing to do would be to save the file as
read-only with a password, so that it can only be saved under a different
filename.

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Vasant

"jon" wrote in message
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is there any way to disable the save facility on a
program so that even if someone changes the layout of a
shared program or deletes a sheet, there's no way that it
is permanent as it won't save

tia