Protection & standalone

Excel's protection isn't made for security. I think most just consider it a way
to stop users from making bad mistakes (overwriting formulas or deleting sheets
that they shouldn't).

If a user can open your workbook, then everything is available to that user.

In fact, if you give the workbook a nice password to open, there are sites that
can break that protection, too.

Cam wrote:
>
> Hi Dominic,
>
> Thanks for your reply, I didn't know about excel viewer - I will have a
> look. My spreadsheet has one value to enter so I guess it will not work
> in this case but I can think of a few other instances where it would be
> great.
>
> On protection - it would be to ensure that information that I released
> in an Excel file was really only accessible by the person I sent it to.
> So, if they then forwarded it on to 'Anne Other'.... she would not have
> access.... hope that makes sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cam.
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Dave Peterson

Oh well.....

Thanks Dave