Hi Wade,

I find it a bit difficult to understand that you really invested 6 years of work and now started to think about protecting your
investment just before public launch.
What sort of information are you looking for?

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Wade" wrote in message ...
| We have a very extensive application that requires the use of Ms excel to
| run. We are getting ready to launch our product to the public but we are very
| concerned about protecting our worksheets and projects etc. We have very
| extensive passwords and scrambling etc. We have found out that the passwords
| can be very easily hacked into. We know that eventually we will need to
| rewrite it in machine language, but we have spent 6 years writing this
| application and it is not feasible at this time.
| Does anyone know of a way to further protect/encrypt or...?
| Does microsoft offer for developers a packaged .exe (EXCEL) for that is
| specific to our program so we can sell the user 1 package that would run our
| program only?
|
| Please help as i need to protect our investment
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| Wade