Dear Paul, If you set the important calculations with Macro , then people will become bound to enable macros.That will help you to achieve your motive.
Sanjoy On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:44 PM, PWS <p...@twelve.me.uk> wrote: > Interesting situtaion which I sure others have come across before. I > cannot think of a solution, I wonder if anyone else has or can? > I have the requirement to not allow a workbook to be saved if a user > has not entered information into a specified cell. > > I thought that is easy I will write a procedure which, using the > BeforeSave event checks that the criteria (the cell has the required > information) has been fulfilled and if not will cancel the save > event. I wrote a nice warning box advising the user that the workbook > could not be saved without the criteria being fulfilled and thought > that was that. > > The first user who tried this opened the workbook, did not enable > macros, and was therefore able to save the workbook without the > required information because the Before Save event did not fire > because macro had been disabled. > > I suppose I am asking is there any way to not open a work unless macro > are enabled? > > PWS > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Some important links for excel users: > 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : > http://twitter.com/exceldailytip > 2. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at > http://www.excelitems.com > 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com > 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com > 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com > > > To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com > If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: > Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > HELP US GROW !! > > We reach over 6,700 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about > the learning and support from the group.Let friends and co-workers know they > can subscribe to group at > http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe > -- Your Sincerely Sanjoy Nath Engineer EOL Gurgaon EOL/M/NZ/Engg.Dept.(Haryana Division) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : http://twitter.com/exceldailytip 2. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 6,700 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group.Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe
