Hi,

If you want to do it with a 'masked' inputbox the 'usual' way is to create a
userform but here's a way to do it with a cistom input box. Credit Ivan F
Moala.

Put this in a module

Option Explicit

''/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
''// 25 May 2003 //
''// Amended Ivan F Moala
''// Call with myresponse=InPutBoxPwd(etc
''// from any module
''/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Public Declare Function GetActiveWindow _
Lib "user32" () _
As Long

Public Declare Function FindWindowEx _
Lib "user32" _
Alias "FindWindowExA" ( _
ByVal hWnd1 As Long, _
ByVal hWnd2 As Long, _
ByVal lpsz1 As String, _
ByVal lpsz2 As String) _
As Long

Public Declare Function SendMessage _
Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, _
lParam As Any) _
As Long

Public Declare Function SetTimer _
Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal nIDEvent As Long, _
ByVal uElapse As Long, _
ByVal lpTimerFunc As Long) _
As Long

Public Declare Function KillTimer _
Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal nIDEvent As Long) _
As Long

Public Declare Function GetForegroundWindow _
Lib "user32" () _
As Long


Private Const nIDE As Long = &H100
Private Const EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR = &HCC

Private hdlEditBox As Long
Private Fgrndhdl As Long

Public Function TimerFunc( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, _
ByVal nEvent As Long, _
ByVal nSecs As Long) As Long

Dim hdlwndAct As Long

'// Do we have a handle to the EditBox
If hdlEditBox 0 Then Exit Function

'// Get the handle to the ActiveWindow
hdlwndAct = GetActiveWindow()

'// Get the Editbox handle
hdlEditBox = FindWindowEx(hdlwndAct, 0, "Edit", "")

'// Set the password character for the InputBox
SendMessage hdlEditBox, EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, Asc("*"), ByVal 0

End Function

Public Function InPutBoxPwd(fPrompt As String, _
Optional fTitle As String, _
Optional fDefault As String, _
Optional fXpos As Long, _
Optional fYpos As Long, _
Optional fHelpfile As String, _
Optional fContext As Long) As String

Dim sInput As String

'// Initialize
hdlEditBox = 0
Fgrndhdl = GetForegroundWindow
'// Windows-Timer
SetTimer Fgrndhdl, nIDE, 100, AddressOf TimerFunc

'// Main InputBox
If fXpos Then
sInput = InputBox(fPrompt, fTitle, fDefault, fXpos, fYpos,
fHelpfile, fContext)
Else
sInput = InputBox(fPrompt, fTitle, fDefault, , , fHelpfile, fContext)
End If

'// Kill the correct Timer
KillTimer Fgrndhdl, nIDE
'// Pass result
InPutBoxPwd = sInput

End Function

Then call it with my code

Sub ProtectAll()
Dim MyPass As String
Dim x As Long
MyPass = InPutBoxPwd("Enter password for sheets", "Sheet Protection")
For x = 1 To Worksheets.Count
If Sheets(x).ProtectContents Then
Sheets(x).Unprotect Password:="MyPass"
Else
Sheets(x).Protect Password:="MyPass"
End If
Next
End Sub

Mike
"Robert Crandal" wrote:

If my workbook has 20 sheets, I would like to write a script
that protects all 20 sheets at once, but it only asks the user
for a password once. I basically want to display the same
dialog box that appears when someone presses the "Protect Sheet"
button.

Is this possible?

.