Disable File Open Command On Excel Viewer 2003

Hi,

We are creating a web kiosk for our company and have installed the
excel viewer for viewinf excel documents on the internet.

Problem is the file -> open menu is there and allows browsing to the
C:\ drive of the kiosk. From the window that appears they can delete
files etc.

I would like to know if anyone knows how to get rid of File -> Open on
the menu. We have tried the EXCEL11.adm file and setting group
policies, but this only applies for the full version of excel.

Please help!!

I'm not too familiar with the Excel viewer, but ifi it supports VBA then the
following line will disable the File menu entirely

Commandbars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Controls("File").Enabled = False

Just put this in the 'Open Workbook' event of your workbook and all should
be ok, you may want to make sure this action is reversed when you exit the
workbook, so change the 'False' to 'True' and place this in the 'Close
Workbook' event.

HTH

Neil
www.nwarwick.co.uk

"Milzy" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are creating a web kiosk for our company and have installed the
> excel viewer for viewinf excel documents on the internet.
>
> Problem is the file -> open menu is there and allows browsing to the
> C:\ drive of the kiosk. From the window that appears they can delete
> files etc.
>
> I would like to know if anyone knows how to get rid of File -> Open on
> the menu. We have tried the EXCEL11.adm file and setting group
> policies, but this only applies for the full version of excel.
>
> Please help!!
>