David,

Save the workbook as a template, and the user will be prompted for a name
when they use save or save as, unless they specifically save the file as a
template as well.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"David128" wrote in message
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i have a report that others use. the main bady of the report is protected
against change. but i need to disable the save so they only use save as.
is
this possably