solution might be to put these columns in a different sheet, open the visual
basic editor and set the visible property (on the lower left pane) to 2-
XlsheetVeryHidden
set it back to -1 - XlsheetVisible to restore to normal

"Mouettes" wrote:

Hi,

I want to 'hide' a column of data in an Excel spreadsheet... attached the
file and email to another user. However, when they open it I want to prevent
them from 'unhiding' the column. How is this achieved. I am using Excel
2002.

Many thanks