Thanks for your help - really appreciate it - very well
explained!!

Paul


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Paul, form excel help,

weorksheet protecting
Protecting elements from all users You can prevent
users from inserting,
deleting, and formatting rows and columns, from changing
the contents of
locked cells, and from moving the cursor to cells that
are locked or to
cells that are unlocked.

By default all cells on a worksheet are locked. Before
you protect a
worksheet, you can unlock cells where you want users to
enter and change
data, in two ways. To unlock cells for all users, you can
use the Protection
tab of the Format Cells dialog box. To unlock cells for
specific users, you
can use the Allow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box. Any
ranges that you
specify in this dialog box and don't assign a password
for are also unlocked
for all users. The cells you leave locked become
protected only after you
protect the worksheet.

Other worksheet features and elements for which you can
restrict access for
all users include hyperlinks, sorting, AutoFiltering,
PivotTable reports,
graphic objects, and scenarios. These protections apply
to all users and the
entire worksheet, not to individual users or data ranges.

For chart sheets, you can protect the contents of the
chart from changes,
and you can protect any graphic objects on the sheet,
such as text boxes,
from being changed or deleted. A protected chart sheet
continues to be
updated whenever the source data for the chart changes.

Giving specific users access to protected ranges If you
have the Windows
2000 operating system, you can allow specific users to
edit specific cells
or ranges. Users to whom you grant access can edit the
cells even if the
cells are locked. Your access restrictions take effect
only after you
protect the worksheet.

The users you specify in the Permissions for range dialog
box can
automatically edit the range without entering the
password. Other users are
prompted for the password, and users who enter the
password can then edit
the range. If a cell belongs to more than one range,
users who are
authorized to edit any of the ranges can then edit the
cell. If a user
attempts to edit multiple cells at once and is authorized
to edit some but
not all of those cells, the user will be prompted to
select and edit the
cells one by one.

workbook protecting
Protecting workbook elements and files

Protecting workbook elements You can prevent users from
adding or deleting
worksheets, or displaying hidden worksheets. You can also
prevent users from
changing the sizes or positions of the windows you set up
to display a
workbook. These protections apply to the entire workbook.

To hide an entire workbook so that users can't see it but
can gain access to
contents such as macros, use the Hide command on the
Window menu, and then
save the hidden workbook.

Protecting a shared workbook You can protect a shared
workbook so that
users cannot return it to exclusive use or delete the
change history log. If
you want to require a password to remove this type of
protection, you must
apply the protection before you share the workbook.
Applying the protection
automatically turns on sharing. Unprotecting these
features turns off
sharing and deletes all of the saved change history.

Alternatively, you can protect the sharing and change
history without a
password. You can apply this protection when a workbook
is already shared,
and then unprotecting won't turn off sharing or delete
the change history.

file protecting
Protecting a workbook file from viewing and editing You
can restrict who
can open and use the data in a workbook file by requiring
a password to view
or save changes to the file. You can set two separate
passwords, one that
users must enter to open and view the file, and another
that users must
enter before they can edit and save changes to the file.
These passwords
apply to the workbook file and are separate from the
protection provided by
the Protect Workbook dialog box.


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Paul B
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"Paul Cooling" wrote in message
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Can someone please help to explain what the difference
is
between protect sheet and protect workbook.

Many thanks in advance

Paul


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