Secure one Worksheet only but not the Workbook

[Mack]

Is there a way to make one worksheet protected so that it can't even be opened without a password. Employees will have access to several worksheets in a workbook, but the results will be summarized on a separate worksheet that will be accessible only to management. How best can I accomplish this? I see that there is a way to make a worksheet invisible, but don't know how to control this. I presume there's some VBA code that could hide and unhide a worksheet protected by a password???
Thanks
Mack

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could hide the worksheet, but that won't stop anyone who is really serious
about seeing what you have in the workbook.

Once you open a workbook, then any of Excel's protection schemes are really not
a problem to break. If you have stuff that shouldn't be seen by others, don't
put it in excel (or don't share that workbook).

 

[Chris Lavender]

Hi Mack

Try something like

Sub showsheet()
If InputBox("", "Enter password") = "mypassword" Then
If Sheets(2).Visible = xlSheetVeryHidden Then Sheets(2).Visible =
xlSheetVisible: Sheets(2).Select
End If
End Sub

linked to a button on say, Sheets(1)

and include code in ThisWorkbook to ensure Sheets(2) is not visible when
opening the workbook:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Sheets(2).Visible = xlSheetVeryHidden
Sheets(1).Select
End Sub

Password-secure the VBAProject to stop anyone looking at the code to find
out what the password is.

HTH
Best rgds
Chris Lav


Is there a way to make one worksheet protected so that it can't even be
opened without a password. Employees will have access to several worksheets
in a workbook, but the results will be summarized on a separate worksheet
that will be accessible only to management. How best can I accomplish this?
I see that there is a way to make a worksheet invisible, but don't know how
to control this. I presume there's some VBA code that could hide and unhide
a worksheet protected by a password???
Thanks
Mack