Who Accessed Spreadsheet

dragonmouse

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Is there any way to see who may have accessed your spreadsheet? (Tracking not turned on). Someone may have messed with it.
 

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This assumes you're asking about the past and not the future use of the workbook. AFAIK, the best you'll be able to do is see who modified it last (Info in backstage - opened by File menu & Info from list). If you opened and saved it before you noticed it was changed, then the modifier will be you.

If you're asking about future use and don't want to turn on tracking then I believe you'll have to use code and store the name somewhere - perhaps a hidden sheet or just a hidden column on a sheet.
 
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Paste this in the ThisWorkbook module :

VBA Code:
Option Explicit

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Dim LR As Long
    With Sheets("Sheet1")
        LR = .Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
        .Range("A" & LR + 1).Value = Time
        .Range("B" & LR + 1).Value = Environ("UserName")
        ThisWorkbook.Save
    End With
End Sub

You can change the Sheet name to something else and hide that sheet from the user's view.
 
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