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 SECURE, SHARE AND SELL
YOUR EXCEL
WORKSHEET TOOLS
(SIMPLE TECHNIQUES TO PREVENT FRAUDULENCE AND
IMPROVING SALES BY SECURED SHARING OF WORKSHEETS
THROUGH WEBSITES)

M Anil Kumar
(M.Sc, MS Chemical, IIT Madras, Industrial Consultant)

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 Notes And Personal Details

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 The ability to simplify means
to eliminate the unnecessary,
so that
the necessary can speak
-Hans Hofmann

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M Anil Kumar
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CONTENTS
Preface 9

1 Introduction 11
1. Protecting data and Formula
2. Advantages and Limitations of Protecting
3. Protecting and Limiting Worksheet Functionality
4. Securing Your Worksheet
5. Showcasing Your Secure Worksheet

2 Securing Your Worksheets 15

1. Sample Worksheet
2. Locking the Cells
3. Hiding the cells
4. Protecting the Worksheet
5. Additional Protection Options

3 Hiding Critical Formulas 21

1. Hiding a Worksheet
2. Displaying Hidden Worksheets

4 Prevent Unhiding 25
1. Protect Workbook
2. Unprotect Workbook

5 Source Locator 27
1. Rendering a Worksheet Nonfunctional
2. Source Identification Function
3. Source Locator Equation

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6 The Exact Source Website 31
1. Website Name Length
2. Extracting Source Website Name
3. Matching Website Name with Authorized Website Name
4. CONTROL for Deactivation

7 Inactivating Worksheet Opened From Unauthorized Source 35

1. Procedure for Inactivating Numerical Values
2. Procedure for Inactivating Date/Time Values

8 Additional Steps to Secure The Worksheet 37

9 Vulnerability 39

10 Serving Excel Worksheet At Your Website 41

1. Registering a Web site

2. Making the main Web page
3. Uploading home page and Worksheets
4. Using FTP Client
5. Opening Excel File From Website
6. Advanced Method

11 Accepting Payment For Orders (PayPal)

1. Introduction
2. Cost to Start a PayPal account
3. Account Type Needed
4. Procedure to Start Account
5. Verification
6. Buy Now Button
7. Installing Buy Now Button on your web page

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PREFACE
Most of us use Excel or other worksheet for our day-to-day and professional
calculations. There are many books available that elaborate the application
of Excel for engineering, science and business. Some Excel addicts among
us program and design stunning worksheet calculation tools that have
potential to sell. But how?

After a painstaking effort to program our calculations, we want to distribute

it to potential clients who may be interested to utilize the ability of our
program. Here exists the hurdle! If we want to really monetize it, we should
be able to demonstrate the ability of the calculation we made without the
risk of possibility of theft of the program by the client. Any one can test your
program, keep a copy with him, and escape without a purchase from you. It
is every programmers thought how to prevent this.

Some people think of protecting the worksheet before giving it for testing to
a client with a password. But you have to give password too for your client
to open it. Then again your control over the file is lost for ever. This made us
to think of a method to share the worksheets over internet with a client, in a
secure way. He should not be able to save a working copy of the Excel
program. If a client liked a program, he can purchase the program by email
from you.

This book explains step by step procedures for incorporating such a level of
protection and method to secure the work with Excel worksheets. A method
by which any website owner can increase revenue by allowing visitors to do
calculations on worksheets called on from website is discussed. The method
of deactivating the file automatically if any one try to store a copy to his/her
local computer is discussed. Various methods to effectively share the
worksheet from web site and to install payment acceptance for worksheet
orders right from your web page is discussed .

-M. Anil Kumar

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