proprietary protection
 

Is there a way to disable a functioning spreadsheet if it is not running on a specific computer? In other words, If I sell the spreadsheet that I have created to a user, I do not want that user to be able to send it to friends and still be usable. Can I code the serial number of the computer into the program and compare it to the serial number of the computer that the spreadsheet is running on and disable the spreadsheet if the two do not match?

proprietary protection
 

If a workbook,
any macro based solution is easily defeated when the user disables macros
when it is opened.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

pdm wrote in message
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Is there a way to disable a functioning spreadsheet if it is not running
on a specific computer? In other words, If I sell the spreadsheet that I
have created to a user, I do not want that user to be able to send it to
friends and still be usable. Can I code the serial number of the computer
into the program and compare it to the serial number of the computer that
the spreadsheet is running on and disable the spreadsheet if the two do not
match?