Sorry, no idea.

Zachary Mitchell, BCIS wrote:
> 
> Not quite.  I am talking about putting
> on a password for the *.xls
> fire itself so that it cannot be opened.
> 
> I can see generally how to do this in Excel.
> How would I acheive the same in Microsoft Word,
> *.doc  ?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "MSB" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: POI XSSF API how do I lock specific Excel sheet features?
> 
> 
>>
>> Please do not take this as the definitive example of locking using XSSF. 
>> That
>> was simply a small piece of code that I was playing around with because
>> at
>> that time no one seemed to know just whatthe sequence of method calls had 
>> to
>> be in order to protect the contents of an Excel workbook built using
>> XSSF.
>> It may well be that you need to call other methods than these and I have 
>> not
>> undertaken any testing to see what they do so cannot really comment 
>> further
>> on this matter. I do wonder though if you are focusing on the wrong
>> aspect
>> of the problem.
>>
>> If I understand what you said correctly, you have a worksheet that you 
>> wish
>> to protect, preventing users even from changing the widths of the
>> columns.
>> Occaisionally, you encounter a problem when the values you have to write
>> into certain cells are so long, they stretch past the edges of the cell 
>> and
>> are hidden from view unless the user CAN increase the width of the
>> column.
>> Well, if that is the case, I think that you should really consider
>> formatting those cells and structuring their contents so that they can be
>> seen without the need to expand the columns. POI includes a method that 
>> you
>> can call to size the column so that it accomodates the largest (in terms 
>> of
>> it's width) value. Alternatively, you could simply insert line breaks
>> (\n)
>> into the cells contents at strategic points and then set word wrapping on
>> for the cell. You may also need to adjust the height of the row in this 
>> case
>> although Excel may - MAY - set this for you automatically when the sheet 
>> is
>> opened.
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> Mark B
>>
>>
>> ragz_82 wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark,
>>> I am facing a similar situation. My requirement is to basically make the
>>> generated .xlsx file as read only. The enableLocking method almost
>>> achieves this functionality, but there are two shortfalls.
>>>
>>> 1. In cases where the cell content is longer than usual, I am unable to
>>> stretch the column width to view the cell content completely. This 
>>> defeats
>>> the purpose of the Report.
>>> 2. Clicking the Unprotect Worksheet button under the Review tab, revokes
>>> this entire setting. In other words, the sheet is editable.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raghu
>>>
>>>
>>
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