Re: Password/worksheet-accessibility

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Well, in my experience, it's not obvious at all - while nobody expects
XL to be foolproof (since better fools are invented daily), lots of
people overestimate XL's protection (in part due to the self-serving
information that MS puts in the protection dialogs and Help).

OTOH, while you may be correct about most pc users (I'm primarily on a
Mac), I think you significantly underestimate the ability, and
inclination, of many users to use simple methods to access protected
content.

And yes, tmack2511 will know his users' abilities better than you or I,
which is why I linked to the archives, where s/he can choose among the
bad options.

FWIW, the code you offered, in addition to being easily bypassed, will
not be at all secure. All the user will have to do is choose
Format/***/Unhide in order to see everyone else's ***.

There are ways that you can beef up your code, but all of them can be
foiled with easily accessible techniques.


In article <6ADF214C-8D25-4BD7-A7F3-6D8A2AD9559B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Rich" <r.mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> true but your statment is a little obvious who ever said excell or any other
> computer program was fool proof , the simple fact of the matter is most pc
> users ony know how to do what they are shown to do on a computer and TMACK
> will know his users abilitys better than you or i,
>
.

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