cracked it; please ignore!

"Jim" wrote in message
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I need to hide and unhide some columns using a macro and then prompt for a
password when unhiding. I used the protect worksheet function and set a
password, and this worked fine. My user has now informed me that the
protect worksheet will already be in use.....

so now I just need to have a macro that hides some columns, but the unhide
is prompted by a password. Is this possible without using the protect
worksheet function?