NOTE: sorry as this is not a programming question but i am not aware about the site to post this query. so i thought any of you could help me out with this.
QUERY:
i have created an excel sheet using google docs to help users to fill their details online. but my problem is that every user has access to this sheet.
some users tampered the sheet and deleted all data.
is there a mechanism provided by google docs to prevent tampering of data?
what should i do?
should i use something else to store user's data so that no user can tamper the data?
Use the Google Form function and set your Google spreadsheet to private
If you go to Data > Protected Sheets and Ranges you can adjust the settings of who can monkey with the data. Probably the best thing to do, however, is to use a Google Form, which will allow you to gather data in a structured format and dump it to the spreadsheet. That is really your best bet...
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I recently began using the CustomProperties and CustomProperty objects in Excel VBA. I would like to know if these are visible or accessible to the user anywhere in the UI..?
I do understand the CustomDocumentProperties and CustomDocumentProperty objects ARE visible to the user through various UI controls, depending on the version of Excel.
I would like to use CustomProperties and CustomProperty for storing information I do not want the user to see, and so the user cannot change them.
I searched through Excel myself, but didn't find anything controls for them. I also searched on StackOverflow and Google, but could not find the answer.
AFAIK, the answer to if these are visible or accessible to the user anywhere in the UI..? is No. But it's hard to prove a negative, so I can't guarantee that.
That said, you seem to be wanting to store some sensitive data in an Excel workbook. That is never going to be secure against a determined attacker. At best you can discourage a responsible user from accessing it.
I need to allow the users of Google Documents write only in the rows, that are assigned to them. Is there any way to prevent writing to lines that do not belong to the user?
Issue:
Unlike Sheets, there's no way to protect specific parts of Google Docs.
Feature request:
If you are interested in this, I'd suggest you to request this feature by clicking Help > Help Docs improve on the Docs editor.
Bellowing is example fuction in Microsoft Word 2016. Google Docs have function or any extension support select value from range?
I only few line need select from drop down. So i don't want using Google Sheet, difficult convert linked table of content, different page header footer or other to sheet.
I get reponse from Google Docs Editors Community .
Bellowing is the response.
That capability currently isn't available in Docs. To help influence future feature changes or additions in Docs, I encourage you to provide feedback about this directly to the Docs team by following these steps:
Open a document.
Click Help > Report a problem.
Enter your feedback.
Although the product team is unable to respond to individual users directly, they review this feedback regularly and use it to help improve the product over time. The more users who have this request, the more likely it is the team will make a change.
So, conclusion. Google doesn't support yet.
how can I read email from my GMail account using Excel?
Here is what I have considered:
Using the CDO object.
Problem: I don't think that this object can receive emails.
Using web scraping with an IE or xmlHTTP object. This is one way to go, and I already have experience and VBA code to do much of the work but it's not simple.
Interfacing with Microsoft Outlook. Problem: Why lock myself in to a more expensive product that Microsoft will want me to pay for when upgrading?
Running an iMacros to scape the data. I have not explored this way properly (because I am hoping to stick to Excel) although it may be the simplest.
Any ideas? What is the simplest reliable way?
Thanks!
P.S. Google search shows many many pages with instructions to send emails using Excel. That's too easy :) . I am trying to retrieve/read emails using Excel.
I'm not sure what the overall goal here is, but I would suggest you are approaching it wrong.
If the goal is to put a list of emails into an Excel file, I would suggest you write the email code in Java, C#, VB, etc. and then generate an Excel file from that.
It's far easier to generate Excel files after getting email information than it is to get email information from VBA.
I need some raw data to visualize it with google charts and some other APIs. Problem is that i some raw data that includes timestamps too.
For example visitors visiting a website i.e. from which device (mobile/computer etc) they accessed website, at what time (hours:minutes:second:miliseconds) and what which links they visited etc. Please help me to know if someone knows about such kind of dummy raw data on web.
You can build your own dataset using Google Spreadsheets.
For example, consider the spreadsheet from the link below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Aj9J3uCNjN9_dG1rdmNtTlhyNWpkTUVHVHBwRzNWX2c&output=html
If you tweak the link, it can provide you with the JSON representation of the data.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Aj9J3uCNjN9_dG1rdmNtTlhyNWpkTUVHVHBwRzNWX2c&pub1
Basically, what you have to do in order to get the JSON response is replace the "pub" element to "tq" and remove the "output=html" element at the end adding "pub1" instead.
With this procedure you should be able to create your own datasource for your tests.
You can find more information on the Google Chart API documentation:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/spreadsheets
Hope it helps