Hi,

I am working on a project in VB6.0 and SQL Server. We use MS Excel for our reports. We also

use server side COM+ components.

We have a situation where we are not able to open some of the reports in 'protected' mode

(i.e, to prevent the users from making changes to the excel report). When we try to open

these in protected mode, the application is crashing, giving a Dr. Watson error.

When we change the VB code to open the excel reports in 'Unprotected' mode, the applcation

works alright. But in this case, the users would be able to change the reports as they like.

Why am I not able to open these excel reports in protected mode from my VB6.0 exe?

Is there a way, where we can prevent the users from making changes to the excel report, even

if we open it in 'unprotected' mode?

We tried using the 'Read Only Recommended' option but that allows the users to make changes

and save changes as some other file name (although the users are prevented from making

changes to the same file) and this cannot be allowed in our application.

Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
ourspt

if your allowed to put code into your workbook
try putting this event into it

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
Cancel = True
End Sub

this will stop the workbook being saved
you can then have your read only property set so no changes can be made

HTH
Dave

Hi
Is there any way to write this code to excel from VB6
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
Cancel = True
End Sub
Actually my problem is

I have an application written in Visual Basic 6. My application
creates a Customer Details Report in Excel. All done till here but now
my problem is that I want to prevent the users from making changes to
the excel report or to copy/paste/delete data from my report or to
save file as another name.
I tried protecting the sheet but that only solves half of the problem,
user can still save file as another name and copy the data.

Use of macro is strictly not allowed.

Please Help
Thanks in Advance