Hi Guys,
What I am trying to do is to prevent an attached Excel 2007 document from being open by other sources such as Google documents. The Excel document can or will be sent by either Firefox or Internet Explorer.
The reason for only wanting Excel to open the document is I have locked and locked with password the document to prevent others from seeing the formulas or changing the document and then complaining that it does not work or doesn't work as it is design to.
I have done a number of searches but found nothing that actually worked or solved the problem.
I want to Thank those that provide answers in advance for this problem I am having.
As far as I know you can't stop people being able to open it in Open Office etc
Dom
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the only way that would be possible would be if you could find a file format that is not useable via open office, google docs, etc within excel.
thats simply not possible any other way. if a program is designed to open xls files, then its going to open xls files. simple as that
MAYBE you could create some kind of VB code in your excel file so it can figure out what program has opened it, and if its not excel to instant close, possibly with a popup message saying "please use excel" or something? i dunno if thatd be possible or not, but its the only even remote chance of doing what you want that i can think of
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Dom
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this is like asking how to email someone a link and only allow firefox users to open it.
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