protect tab

[Andre]

I'm building an Excel app that has 2 tabs; user and admin. I would like to
have the admin tab password protected, so that if "user" opens the workbook
and clicks on the "admin" tab, they are prompted for a password. Obviously
this is a way of hiding the Admin tab from those who are not allowed to see
it. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about doing it? Or is there
another solution that is recommended?

Thanks, Andre

[tony h]

You can hide the sheet using format...sheet...hide. But if someone tries to unhide it they can find it.

Or going to the VBA IDE you can set the visible property of the sheet to xlveryhidden.

Whether you need to be more secure depends on your app, the nature of your users and the risks

regards.

[Andre]

If I used xlveryhidden, how do the 'admin' users unhide it? Do I give them
a special keyboard combo to unhide it or something?

Andre

[Dave Peterson]

First, excel's security isn't made for this kind of protection. If you put it
in a workbook, you can expect someone to break excel's security very easily.

If you really don't want the info on the admin worksheet to get out, don't share
the workbook with people who shouldn't see that sheet.


Andre wrote:
>
> I'm building an Excel app that has 2 tabs; user and admin. I would like to
> have the admin tab password protected, so that if "user" opens the workbook
> and clicks on the "admin" tab, they are prompted for a password. Obviously
> this is a way of hiding the Admin tab from those who are not allowed to see
> it. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about doing it? Or is there
> another solution that is recommended?
>
> Thanks, Andre

--

Dave Peterson

[Andre]

Another option I might have is to have an admin workbook that creates a user
workbook. Is it possible for one workbook to create another one? If so,
can you give me a tip on how to do it - in VBA?

Thanks, Andre


"Dave Peterson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> First, excel's security isn't made for this kind of protection. If you
> put it
> in a workbook, you can expect someone to break excel's security very
> easily.
>
> If you really don't want the info on the admin worksheet to get out, don't
> share
> the workbook with people who shouldn't see that sheet.

[Dave Peterson]

I don't quite understand why you wouldn't create the separate workbooks
manually.

And you could have a program that would create another workbook (that's easy).
But to extract data and put it into the other workbook would depend on what you
really needed. And that could be easy or difficult <bg>.

Andre wrote:
>
> Another option I might have is to have an admin workbook that creates a user
> workbook. Is it possible for one workbook to create another one? If so,
> can you give me a tip on how to do it - in VBA?
>
> Thanks, Andre
>
> "Dave Peterson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > First, excel's security isn't made for this kind of protection. If you
> > put it
> > in a workbook, you can expect someone to break excel's security very
> > easily.
> >
> > If you really don't want the info on the admin worksheet to get out, don't
> > share
> > the workbook with people who shouldn't see that sheet.

--

Dave Peterson