P.S.

- Any best practices to prevent would be scoundrels from gaining access to
this data

I love the English language "Scoundrel". Why do people find it necessary to
swear when we have such an abundance of words. There's scoundrels and
rapscallions everywhere these days!!

Mike

"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

The only way for 2 people to keep a secret is for one to kill the other.
Excel is a little like that, if you share your workbook with someone else,
with a little ingenuity and Google they have access to your data.

Mike

"Mushman(Woof!)" wrote:

Hello-

Any advice for best practices for protecting data/methods/macros within
Excel? Clearly, password protecting a sheet isn't the best security (free
utilities to crack it).

Scenario:
- I need users to be able to access the workbook, but by no means, gain
access to data within the certain sheets
- I can hide the data by utilizing similar colored text and hiding the
rows/columns
- Once the password is created, it appears there are tons of free utilities
that remove these passwords- Bummer.

Question:
- Any advice to help prevent the utilities from doing this? More complex
passwords help?
- Any best practices to prevent would be scoundrels from gaining access to
this data if they do crack the sheet passwords? (unfortunately, the sheets
are calculating data so having a feed from outside won't help)
- Any idea if this 'problem' has been addressed in office 2010? (aka: better
sheet password protection)

Many thanks for the tips, tricks, thoughts on this subject.