Disable Excel Macros in read only workbook?

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Is it possible to force excel to disable all macro's or all form buttons when a workbook is opened as read only?
 

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I don't think so, but, you could add a condition at the beginning of your code to test if the workbook is read only, and if it is, Exit Sub.

If ActiveWorkbook.ReadOnly then Exit Sub
 
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Unless someone has a better suggestions - I would just insert the following code at the start of your routines.

If ActiveWorkbook.ReadOnly Then
exit sub
End If

If you have a lot of routines then I would suggest you create an xla file with all thes processes etc which is called by the workbook - in that case you would load the xla only if the file was not a read-only file
as in the following example.

If ActiveWorkbook.ReadOnly Then
exit sub
else
Workbooks.Open FileName:="my_xla_file.xla"
End If

Hope this helps.

John
 
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