Read only Excell sheet - distributed over web?

[evild]

Is it possible to distribute an excel spreadsheet on the web [i.e. so people can download it] and set it such that they cannot edit the spreadsheet in any way.
As with downloads, the file permissions would be accessable to whoever downloads it. I do not wish this. I want people to be able to download it and not be able to edit it.

 

[evild]

There must be something in excel to cater for this type of distro. What about setting a password on the spreadsheet and setting permission within that.
Actual file permissions themselves would be no good I think.

 

[jdhilljr]

One thing that I do is to use 2 separate xls files. 1 to view the data with links to the other document then they can only edit the read page while the data is in a protected file on the web. Ask your web server manager to locate or create a secure file. Then create the read page and move that from the workbook and the links will stay intact.

http://www.procollectortips.com/test1.xls

this is only a one cell sample but will give you the basic principle. I also don't have this in a secure file.

Jim