Can I independently p/w protect varied tabs of an excel 2003 workbook so that
varied users can only view tabs they are specifically granted access to (via
p/w)? EG, tabs 1 - 9 are for data entry by 9 parties and tab 10 is a merged
report based upon the date of tab 1 - 9. Each user needs read / write for
their own tab, but NOT for others.

Thoughts?

You can do this but remember that Excel's internal security is very weak and
passwords easily broken.

Have a look ar this google search result for a few pointers with a couple of
attack methods and some code.

http://tinyurl.com/ysj6dw

Jerry has the sheet_activate method and I use the workbook_open and close to
hide sheets.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:00:01 -0700, Brian K <Brian
wrote:

Can I independently p/w protect varied tabs of an excel 2003 workbook so that
varied users can only view tabs they are specifically granted access to (via
p/w)? EG, tabs 1 - 9 are for data entry by 9 parties and tab 10 is a merged
report based upon the date of tab 1 - 9. Each user needs read / write for
their own tab, but NOT for others.

Thoughts?