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Yea PDF's would be the way to go, but my management wants to figure out a way to do it from an excel document, would there be a macro to prevent printing and then hide the content unless macros are enabled?
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Yea PDF's would be the way to go, but my management wants to figure out a way to do it from an excel document, would there be a macro to prevent printing and then hide the content unless macros are enabled?

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We would like to find a way that we can disable users from printing and editing an excel workbook. &nbsp;Is there an easy way to do this in Excel 2010?
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We would like to find a way that we can disable users from printing and editing an excel workbook.  Is there an easy way to do this in Excel 2010?

Disable printing and editing in an excel file

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