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Worksheet level password protection
I have an Excel workbook with 20 worksheets in it. We would like to make the
workbook available on a network drive and restrict access, by user, to individual worksheets. Is there a way to place password protection not just on the workbook itself but on the individual sheets? There would be separate passwords per sheet. If this is not possible, does anyone have ideas of what might work instead? |
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Worksheet level password protection
http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68586
"Liz" wrote: I have an Excel workbook with 20 worksheets in it. We would like to make the workbook available on a network drive and restrict access, by user, to individual worksheets. Is there a way to place password protection not just on the workbook itself but on the individual sheets? There would be separate passwords per sheet. If this is not possible, does anyone have ideas of what might work instead? |
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you need to go here.. there is a file uploaded by roy that will work for you
"Liz" wrote: I have an Excel workbook with 20 worksheets in it. We would like to make the workbook available on a network drive and restrict access, by user, to individual worksheets. Is there a way to place password protection not just on the workbook itself but on the individual sheets? There would be separate passwords per sheet. If this is not possible, does anyone have ideas of what might work instead? |
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Internal protection is so easily bypassed that I would never recommend
it unless it's simply for convenience (e.g., to keep users from accidentally changing formulae). Various suggestions can be found in the archives of this group for providing protection using macros, but that becomes very difficult in a shared environment, and the macros themselves are easily bypassed. You could use multiple workbooks (one or more for each individual) with separate passwords, which are somewhat more secure, though even they can be broken in a few seconds. However, you could set file permissions to restrict access. In article , Liz wrote: I have an Excel workbook with 20 worksheets in it. We would like to make the workbook available on a network drive and restrict access, by user, to individual worksheets. Is there a way to place password protection not just on the workbook itself but on the individual sheets? There would be separate passwords per sheet. If this is not possible, does anyone have ideas of what might work instead? |
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Yes, I believe that will work. Thank you very much.
"cbanks" wrote: http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68586 "Liz" wrote: I have an Excel workbook with 20 worksheets in it. We would like to make the workbook available on a network drive and restrict access, by user, to individual worksheets. Is there a way to place password protection not just on the workbook itself but on the individual sheets? There would be separate passwords per sheet. If this is not possible, does anyone have ideas of what might work instead? |
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Note that the link shows a solution where the usernames and passwords
are stored in the workbook itself (on a veryhidden sheet). This is VERY dangerous, since one doesn't even need to have the minimal knowledge required to bypass any protection, in order to read usernames and passwords in plain text. All one needs is a hex editor. In article , cbanks wrote: http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68586 "Liz" wrote: I have an Excel workbook with 20 worksheets in it. We would like to make the workbook available on a network drive and restrict access, by user, to individual worksheets. Is there a way to place password protection not just on the workbook itself but on the individual sheets? There would be separate passwords per sheet. If this is not possible, does anyone have ideas of what might work instead? |
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