Self-destructive Excel files -- How to?

[The Hun]

Excel 2002

How do I enable an Excel file to self-destruct at a certain date, or
when there is an attempt to make any change to it? I don't just want
to preserve it. I want it to self-destruct.

 

[T. Valko]

See this:

http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/workbooktimebomb.aspx

 

[Don Guillett]

But you can make it so that many things don't work unless macros are
enabled.

 

[The Hun]

But you can make it so that many things don't work unless macros are
enabled.

Is it possible to have the formula in a cell self-destruct at a
future date?

 

[Gord Dibben]

You can have a formula self-destruct on a certain date/time but the same
caveat about enabling macros will remain.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP