Secure Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with LotusScript
Want to protect your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets from tampering? This LotusScript code from SearchDomino.com member Prasad Knair programmatically lets you secure a Microsoft Excel file with a password and prohibit what columns can be edited.
Want to protect Microsoft Excel spreadsheets from tampering? This LotusScript code only allows users to edit columns that you specify as permitted. Other columns can be locked programmatically, and the Microsoft Excel file will be protected with a password. The only way for the secured columns to be edited is for the user to know the password and edit them after entering it.
'Setting the Excel object.
Set ExcelApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set ExcelWorkbook =
ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open("C:TempTest.xls")
Set ExcelWorksheet =
ExcelWorkbook.Application.Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1)
' You can enter the values and once
the entry is over lock the columns.
With ExcelWorksheet
' .Range("A1:B1").Select
.Range("A1").Value ="Prasad"
.Range("B1").Value ="Lekshmi"
.Range("A1:B1").Locked=True
.Range("A2:A10").Locked=False
End With
ExcelWorksheet.Protect Password="1234"
' You just need one line to protect excel sheet from tampering.
ExcelWorkbook.Save
ExcelApp.quit
Set ExcelApp=Nothing
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