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How do I prevent someone from deleting a workbook?
When I protect a workbook so that users cannot modify it without knowing the
password, what prevents the user from doing the following: 1. Open the workbook in read-only mode (I do want others to be able to read the workbook). 2. Select save as and give the file a new name. 3. Delete the original (password protected) workbook. 4. Rename the new (unprotected workbook) to the name of the original workbook. 5. Edit the workbook and then save the changes. |
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'Cause when you save the protected workbook, it also saves the protection.
Even when it is renamed, the protection remains. -- Michael Mitchelson "JSP" wrote: When I protect a workbook so that users cannot modify it without knowing the password, what prevents the user from doing the following: 1. Open the workbook in read-only mode (I do want others to be able to read the workbook). 2. Select save as and give the file a new name. 3. Delete the original (password protected) workbook. 4. Rename the new (unprotected workbook) to the name of the original workbook. 5. Edit the workbook and then save the changes. |
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JSP,
You're close. But I was hoping no one would start spreading that method around. You can protect the workbook (not the sheet) to prevent your method from being used within the workbook at the worksheets level (copying to another sheet). For file-level work (your example -- copying to another file), you can disallow deleting the file with your network or operating system permissions. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com "JSP" wrote in message ... When I protect a workbook so that users cannot modify it without knowing the password, what prevents the user from doing the following: 1. Open the workbook in read-only mode (I do want others to be able to read the workbook). 2. Select save as and give the file a new name. 3. Delete the original (password protected) workbook. 4. Rename the new (unprotected workbook) to the name of the original workbook. 5. Edit the workbook and then save the changes. |
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Absolutely nothing.
I always kept a back up copy and would look at the time/date stamp -- although there's nothing stopping them from modifying that, either. If you share this on a network drive, you may want to ask your IT folks for another sharename--only you (and trusted coworkers (when you're out of the office) can write, but all can read. But this will only stop people from overwriting your file--it won't stop them from saving locally and using that copy. JSP wrote: When I protect a workbook so that users cannot modify it without knowing the password, what prevents the user from doing the following: 1. Open the workbook in read-only mode (I do want others to be able to read the workbook). 2. Select save as and give the file a new name. 3. Delete the original (password protected) workbook. 4. Rename the new (unprotected workbook) to the name of the original workbook. 5. Edit the workbook and then save the changes. -- Dave Peterson |
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What you want is Adobe PDF. We use it to 'lock' Excel sheets. Everyone can
look at the sheet but no one can change it. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat available and don't want to buy it, you can subscribe for a monthly fee at Adobe.com. If you won't use it enough to make even that worthwhile, Adobe provides 5 free samples. You select the file on your computer and Adobe will email you the file converted to PDF. You could create a new email address at yahoo.com or hotmail.com and get 5 free conversions for each new email address. "JSP" wrote: When I protect a workbook so that users cannot modify it without knowing the password, what prevents the user from doing the following: 1. Open the workbook in read-only mode (I do want others to be able to read the workbook). 2. Select save as and give the file a new name. 3. Delete the original (password protected) workbook. 4. Rename the new (unprotected workbook) to the name of the original workbook. 5. Edit the workbook and then save the changes. |
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There was a rather long thread a couple of weeks ago about the morality of
using these groups to proliferate the procedures and codes for breaking passwords, considering that the identity of the questioner could not be verified in any way as being legally empowered to have such access to any particular XL file. I believe what you have done here, although certainly not innovative, to say the least, is use these groups to foster the misappropriation of something that each one of us here depends on ... software. -- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Box" wrote in message ... What you want is Adobe PDF. We use it to 'lock' Excel sheets. Everyone can look at the sheet but no one can change it. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat available and don't want to buy it, you can subscribe for a monthly fee at Adobe.com. If you won't use it enough to make even that worthwhile, Adobe provides 5 free samples. You select the file on your computer and Adobe will email you the file converted to PDF. You could create a new email address at yahoo.com or hotmail.com and get 5 free conversions for each new email address. "JSP" wrote: When I protect a workbook so that users cannot modify it without knowing the password, what prevents the user from doing the following: 1. Open the workbook in read-only mode (I do want others to be able to read the workbook). 2. Select save as and give the file a new name. 3. Delete the original (password protected) workbook. 4. Rename the new (unprotected workbook) to the name of the original workbook. 5. Edit the workbook and then save the changes. |
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