Pop Up Disclaimer

[ktosatto]

Hello all,
I was wondering if someone could dumb down some Excel setup info. I need to set up a pop-up disclaimer where a user of a spreadsheet would have to accept the terms in order to view the sheet. Is this possible?? If so would somebody please inform me on how to do it? Thanks!

 

[Sal Paradise]

To do pop-ups, you need to have macros enabled. There is no way to ensure that macros are enabled in everyone's excel (by default they are disabled). You could hide all the data and protect the workbook if macros are disabled, and only unprotect/show the sheets if macros are enabled (by running a macro on workbook open), and have the only visible sheet say "You need macros enabled to use this workbook" along with instructions on how to do it.

If they do have macros enabled, you could have a pop-up box with the Terms and Conditions pop up using a userform, and if they don't click "OK" you can not unprotect the workbook.

But in reality, this isn't a secure solution. Any savvy excel user would be able to entirely ignore the message and get at the data if they wanted to. And even if the user does click OK, there is no way of you knowing that they clicked okay, so I don't understand what this whole runaround would accomplish.