By default the protect sheet is not set up to allow the use of autofilter.
when you apply protection to the sheet when the dialog box opens for your
password, scroll down to the bottom and you will see a "Use Autofilter" box,
just check this.

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"Arno" wrote:

Hello,

VISTA computer: can you please tell me how to protect an xls woorkbook/file
so that people can use filters but Cannot change formats, delete cells,.....


Thank you !

Arno