How to force Excel to turn on macro when open?

[hon]

Just want to find out if it is possible to force Excel to turn on macro when open.

 

[Tazguy37]

Here's one way. Actually, it's several ways, but you get the idea. I like the EnableMacros.zip method, myself.

Hope that helps!

 

[hon]

not quite what I wanted. The reason why I want this feature is I want to stop users from making coping of the master file stored in our internet portal. I have a before_save macro to disable some function rendering it useless. But this macro won't work if a user can turn off the macro and save a copy in their own drive.

 

[Nimrod]

hon

This is no way to prevent a user from disabling macros, or a macro enabling macros. If this was possible then virus's could easily infect your system :wink:

 

[hon]

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but is it possible to tell Excel not to load macro/VBA if macro is turned off so that if a user do try to save the file, it would be useless without the macro.

 

[Tazguy37]

You could disable Save and Save As for that file through VBA code. Perhaps include a macro (tied to a button) that uses an input box to ask for a password before you can save.

 

[hon]

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This won't work if the user turns off the macro on open

 

[Tom Urtis]

Just want to find out if it is possible to force Excel to turn on macro when open.

We had this discussion last night, and since then Excel has not changed.

http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=180707&highlight=

 

[hon]

Hi Tom, your solution from last night also depends on macro being turned on on open, right?

 

[Tom Urtis]

If "turned on" to you means Enabled, then yes it does, which I said twice last night is not possible to control, and others have told you the same thing last night and now again here tonight:

Security (such as it is) is handled at the local (computer) level, and if someone wants to make a copy of the workbook they will, in Explorer or other ways that are easily available totally outside of the workbook author's control.

there are no guarantees against piracy, intranet or not, and especially not possible to control the macro security settings of one computer from another.

hon

This is no way to prevent a user from disabling macros, or a macro enabling macros. If this was possible then virus's could easily infect your system :wink:

Thne I gave you directions and code to take the macros out of a file and make a copy of that file so it has no code in it. That way you won't have to worry about th euser's security settings because the file you are sending them has no code, which you originally asked about.

Beyond that, maybe you need a platform other than Excel.