Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Hide columns to all but one user?
Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a
spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Here is what will happen. Test this in a blank new workbook:
Enter in the following cells. A1: You're the B1: stupidest C1: man ! Rightclick columnheader B. Choose Hide. Now it says "You're the man !", which is far nicer. Go menu Tools Protection, protect the sheet with a long complex password, mixed case, numbers and letters, at least 10 characters long. This is as safe as you possibly get. Celebrate with a coffee. Now Select cells A1:C1 with your mouse. Click the Copy button. Go to another worksheet. Click any cell. Click the Paste button. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Fern" skrev i melding ... Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Another way is this
Press F5 Enter B1 OK Look in the formula bar now You can use the down arrow to see the cells below -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Harald Staff" wrote in message ... Here is what will happen. Test this in a blank new workbook: Enter in the following cells. A1: You're the B1: stupidest C1: man ! Rightclick columnheader B. Choose Hide. Now it says "You're the man !", which is far nicer. Go menu Tools Protection, protect the sheet with a long complex password, mixed case, numbers and letters, at least 10 characters long. This is as safe as you possibly get. Celebrate with a coffee. Now Select cells A1:C1 with your mouse. Click the Copy button. Go to another worksheet. Click any cell. Click the Paste button. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Fern" skrev i melding ... Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
The bad news is that worksheet/workbook protection (under tools|protection) in
excel is not made for this kind of thing. It can be broken in a matter of moments. If you really have secure data that other shouldn't see, don't put it in excel--or don't share that workbook with others. Fern wrote: Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? -- Dave Peterson |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
One more.
Tools|Options|transition tab check "transition navigation keys" Start a new worksheet (even in a new workbook) type = (just an equal sign) in A1 of that new worksheet go back to that worksheet with the "hidden" columns. Oh, oh! Ron de Bruin wrote: Another way is this Press F5 Enter B1 OK Look in the formula bar now You can use the down arrow to see the cells below -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Harald Staff" wrote in message ... Here is what will happen. Test this in a blank new workbook: Enter in the following cells. A1: You're the B1: stupidest C1: man ! Rightclick columnheader B. Choose Hide. Now it says "You're the man !", which is far nicer. Go menu Tools Protection, protect the sheet with a long complex password, mixed case, numbers and letters, at least 10 characters long. This is as safe as you possibly get. Celebrate with a coffee. Now Select cells A1:C1 with your mouse. Click the Copy button. Go to another worksheet. Click any cell. Click the Paste button. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Fern" skrev i melding ... Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? -- Dave Peterson |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Thank to all for your responses. Any other suggestions? I'm trying to avoid
having to duplicate the information in another worksheet for the manager. Can I protect a tab, and then in that sheet have references to the other cells? "Dave Peterson" wrote: The bad news is that worksheet/workbook protection (under tools|protection) in excel is not made for this kind of thing. It can be broken in a matter of moments. If you really have secure data that other shouldn't see, don't put it in excel--or don't share that workbook with others. Fern wrote: Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? -- Dave Peterson |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
There's nothing you can do that will stop any dedicated user from finding
information in that workbook if they can open it. I wouldn't put it in a workbook I shared with others if those people shouldn't see it. (There's nothing that will make the security tighter.) Fern wrote: Thank to all for your responses. Any other suggestions? I'm trying to avoid having to duplicate the information in another worksheet for the manager. Can I protect a tab, and then in that sheet have references to the other cells? "Dave Peterson" wrote: The bad news is that worksheet/workbook protection (under tools|protection) in excel is not made for this kind of thing. It can be broken in a matter of moments. If you really have secure data that other shouldn't see, don't put it in excel--or don't share that workbook with others. Fern wrote: Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
No. Nonononono.
General rule is this: A user can access any information within an Excel file that you give her. If you don't want her to see some mystery thing, do not leave this thing in the file. That simple, that difficult. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Fern" skrev i melding ... Thank to all for your responses. Any other suggestions? I'm trying to avoid having to duplicate the information in another worksheet for the manager. Can I protect a tab, and then in that sheet have references to the other cells? "Dave Peterson" wrote: The bad news is that worksheet/workbook protection (under tools|protection) in excel is not made for this kind of thing. It can be broken in a matter of moments. If you really have secure data that other shouldn't see, don't put it in excel--or don't share that workbook with others. Fern wrote: Is it possible to restrict the view of several columns to one user? I have a spreadsheet that the whole team enters data into. The manager wants columns in the same spreadsheet where she can enter confidential information about each project, so she should be the only person who can view or unhide or ungroup those columns or something. Any suggestions? -- Dave Peterson |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Hide Rows / Columns - complex question | Excel Worksheet Functions | |||
Hide columns & rows that contain "0" or blank in a range of cells | Excel Worksheet Functions | |||
Getting Excel error when trying to hide columns. Why? | Excel Discussion (Misc queries) | |||
Removing columns (not hide or white-out). | Excel Worksheet Functions | |||
Hide Cell Content if no data in previous columns | Excel Discussion (Misc queries) |