I have made an excel file and protected sheets in it and even
hidden some of the worksheets with macros.

But when i open the xls file in Open Office (linux)

It shows all the worksheets and there is no protection.

I dont want to display the hidden sheets in any OS(or Package).

any work arounds?

Kindly help

Hi Priya,
workaround: Don't use Open Office or pretend it doesn't exist.

Open Office is a different software program, it can read Excel files
but it is not Excel. It's great for recovery of Excel files. Possibly
features of exposing data while helpful in some areas are not helpful
to others.

If this is a security issue, you should be aware that there is not much
security in Excel. What there is is basically to help prevent you from
accidentally destroying parts of your file. Security was not builtin to
Personal Computing from day one. PCs were not connected to
networks, you turned off your machine and went home.

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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

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I have made an excel file and protected sheets in it and even
hidden some of the worksheets with macros.

But when i open the xls file in Open Office (linux)

It shows all the worksheets and there is no protection.

I dont want to display the hidden sheets in any OS(or Package).

any work arounds?

Kindly help