Can you set a password for the end user to safeguard opening an excel
file from several users?

I know you can set a password for an excel file to OPEN or MODIFY, but
does the security hold the same when the user via email or a company
network looks at it?

Please help!

Thank you.

It should.

But I've seen some posts that say that the password disappears when they've
emailed the file. I've never seen this behavior. I can't duplicate it. I'm
not sure if the original poster(s) did what he/she explained. (I've always had
my doubts that excel/windows would behave this way.)

But there's nothing stopping you from doing some testing.



wrote:

Can you set a password for the end user to safeguard opening an excel
file from several users?

I know you can set a password for an excel file to OPEN or MODIFY, but
does the security hold the same when the user via email or a company
network looks at it?

Please help!

Thank you.

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Dave Peterson

The security, such as it is, in an XL file is the same no matter how the
file is transferred. However, it's rather easily defeated. See

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/fileandvbapwords.html

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wrote:

Can you set a password for the end user to safeguard opening an excel
file from several users?

I know you can set a password for an excel file to OPEN or MODIFY, but
does the security hold the same when the user via email or a company
network looks at it?

Please help!

Thank you.