Protecting an excel-fil from being copied

[Traima]

Hi,
I'm about to publish an excel-file with some confidential information. I've
managed to passwordprotect the file and to passwordprotect the structure of
the sheets. But, I'm concerned that someone might download this file from
it's place on our companies internal websites and forward it.

Is it possible to protect an excel-file from being downloaded to another
destination than the adress where it's published?

Thanks,

 

[jaf]

"> Is it possible to protect an excel-file from being downloaded to another

destination than the adress where it's published?

No.

John

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps, Look up "IRM" (Information Rights Management) in Excel Help.

 

[Shane Devenshire]

If the information is confidential and they can see it, it doesn't really
matter if they can download it, they can always use a screen capture program
to copy what's important.

Suppose you have a secret which no one knows. If you give one person access
to that info, your secret, what can you do to make sure the don't pass it
along? Nothing!

If you can't trust the viewer then don't let them see the data.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Hi,
I'm about to publish an excel-file with some confidential information. I've
managed to passwordprotect the file and to passwordprotect the structure of
the sheets. But, I'm concerned that someone might download this file from
it's place on our companies internal websites and forward it.

Is it possible to protect an excel-file from being downloaded to another
destination than the adress where it's published?

Thanks,

Excel's password protection is pretty weak.

I have been able to view supposedly protected macros just by opening the
Excel workbook in OpenOffice. I cannot run the macros, but I can view
the code.