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Paul Tugwell - 28 Feb 2008 11:15 GMT
I have a spreadsheet that I wish to protect so that its contents can be
viewed but not altered or copied by the recipients. I have set passwords for
the worksheet and the workbook and against the modify in tool options.
However it is still possible to select the entire contents of a sheet and
copy them to another workbook where they are unprotected! Is there any way
of stopping this?
JE McGimpsey - 28 Feb 2008 12:34 GMT
It's worse than that. XL's internal protection is suitable for
preventing inadvertent modification of the workbook.

In addition to the copy/paste workaround, the other steps you've taken
already are trivial to bypass:

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

In brief: If someone with the wit to draw breath can access your
workbook, they can access everything in it.

One alternative would be to compile your logic and fixed data into a COM
add-in.

Or perhaps you could send a pdf?

That also won't prevent copying, of course.

> I have a spreadsheet that I wish to protect so that its contents can be
> viewed but not altered or copied by the recipients. I have set passwords for
> the worksheet and the workbook and against the modify in tool options.
> However it is still possible to select the entire contents of a sheet and
> copy them to another workbook where they are unprotected! Is there any way
> of stopping this?
 
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