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Hi everyone,
I wondered if anyone might be able to help me with a small issue I am having. My company distributes an analysis tool in Excel (the decision for using Excel over a custom application is beyond my control). We have put a lot of time and effort into ensuring the high quality of the data - which is very valuable - within the application and I have instituted a number of security procedures to try and provide some additional security. Most have been reasonably simple to implement and have not caused me any difficulty. However, we have been having a problem with people (sales) emailing the entire workbook out to clients...despite instructions not to do this, it continues unabated. While the other security procedures should stop people from viewing the code, data and the like - one cannot be certain. Is anyone aware of any way to STOP emailing of files from within Excel VBA? I know that I cannot stop people from, when using Outlook, emailing the file directly...but my feeling is that most just use the Send Mail function within Excel and for this reason I very much want to disable it (if at all possible). Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this, or any other security issues you might be familiar with when it comes to distributing Excel workbooks (any idear are always welcome). Thanks! David |
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Maybe disable send when that workbook is active,
application.CommandBars(1).Controls("File").contro ls("Send To").enabled = false and enable it on inactive. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "David" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone might be able to help me with a small issue I am having. My company distributes an analysis tool in Excel (the decision for using Excel over a custom application is beyond my control). We have put a lot of time and effort into ensuring the high quality of the data - which is very valuable - within the application and I have instituted a number of security procedures to try and provide some additional security. Most have been reasonably simple to implement and have not caused me any difficulty. However, we have been having a problem with people (sales) emailing the entire workbook out to clients...despite instructions not to do this, it continues unabated. While the other security procedures should stop people from viewing the code, data and the like - one cannot be certain. Is anyone aware of any way to STOP emailing of files from within Excel VBA? I know that I cannot stop people from, when using Outlook, emailing the file directly...but my feeling is that most just use the Send Mail function within Excel and for this reason I very much want to disable it (if at all possible). Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this, or any other security issues you might be familiar with when it comes to distributing Excel workbooks (any idear are always welcome). Thanks! David |
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You can always remove the Sendmail menu items with code.
-- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "David" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone might be able to help me with a small issue I am having. My company distributes an analysis tool in Excel (the decision for using Excel over a custom application is beyond my control). We have put a lot of time and effort into ensuring the high quality of the data - which is very valuable - within the application and I have instituted a number of security procedures to try and provide some additional security. Most have been reasonably simple to implement and have not caused me any difficulty. However, we have been having a problem with people (sales) emailing the entire workbook out to clients...despite instructions not to do this, it continues unabated. While the other security procedures should stop people from viewing the code, data and the like - one cannot be certain. Is anyone aware of any way to STOP emailing of files from within Excel VBA? I know that I cannot stop people from, when using Outlook, emailing the file directly...but my feeling is that most just use the Send Mail function within Excel and for this reason I very much want to disable it (if at all possible). Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this, or any other security issues you might be familiar with when it comes to distributing Excel workbooks (any idear are always welcome). Thanks! David |
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Thanks Guys...Its amazing that I've written code to encrypt the data, to
complete domain and username authentication but couldn't think of something as simple as this (which I have done hundreds of times)! In any event, thanks for the prompt response... David "Tom Ogilvy" wrote: You can always remove the Sendmail menu items with code. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "David" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone might be able to help me with a small issue I am having. My company distributes an analysis tool in Excel (the decision for using Excel over a custom application is beyond my control). We have put a lot of time and effort into ensuring the high quality of the data - which is very valuable - within the application and I have instituted a number of security procedures to try and provide some additional security. Most have been reasonably simple to implement and have not caused me any difficulty. However, we have been having a problem with people (sales) emailing the entire workbook out to clients...despite instructions not to do this, it continues unabated. While the other security procedures should stop people from viewing the code, data and the like - one cannot be certain. Is anyone aware of any way to STOP emailing of files from within Excel VBA? I know that I cannot stop people from, when using Outlook, emailing the file directly...but my feeling is that most just use the Send Mail function within Excel and for this reason I very much want to disable it (if at all possible). Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this, or any other security issues you might be familiar with when it comes to distributing Excel workbooks (any idear are always welcome). Thanks! David |
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