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Man Fai Chan
Aug 03, 2018Iron Contributor
Force user to SAVEAS
I have a file to put in a shared folder. It served as a template for others. Other users may open and write the file but I don't want them to save the "template" file. Is there a way to prevent them ...
- Aug 06, 2018
Hi Man Fai Chan
Good to hear you have some ideas to go forward with.
Out of curiousity, is your network file saved as an Excel Macro-enabled template (*.xltm)?
Cheers
Damien
Lorenzo Kim
Aug 03, 2018Bronze Contributor
Mr. Chan
The recommendation of Mr. Rosario is what I have been doing to prevent my templates from being written over.
However, if the user (with bad intention) knows the trick to change it in the file properties - no one can stop that!
Maybe what you are asking is a vba to do that protection. I wonder, if there is...
MVP's.. anyone?
Lorenzo Kim
Aug 03, 2018Bronze Contributor
actually, I had been searching the net for forced SAVEAS - but no luck.. still, I think there is a code for that.