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    Question Securing Documents in Excel

    I have an Excel document that I need to secure. By that, I mean that it can be viewed by anyone, but it cannot be changed or printed. Is this possible?

    Thanks!

    Betty
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    Re: Securing Documents in Excel

    Excel is intrinsically not a secure environment.

    To approach this, you'd need to force the user to enable macros in order to see any of the information, then have code that cancels printing. You'd need code that purges the clipboard when the workbook is deactivated to prevent copying and pasting to another application (you could protect the worksheets to prevent cell selection in the first place, but that is trivial to break.)

    The motivated user will then just copy the screen and then print that.
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    Re: Securing Documents in Excel

    Thank you!

    "The motivated user will then just copy the screen and then print that." -- I was pretty sure that would be the case.

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