Thanks Peo, this works. I'm impressed but as not very intuitive and not easy
to find except by MVP user - I would still suggest this be more user
friendly. It is a valuable use and I have challenged many excel "experts" to
show me this before and they could not.
regards

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Before you suggest something you might want to check out if this
functionality exists

If you select all cells and do formatconditional formatting and formula is

=CELL("protect",A1)=0




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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"MikeH" wrote in message
...
in lotus 123 there was a useful / often used conditional formatting (by
background colour) of unprotected cells for data input. This s/be top of
chain of conditional formatting yet if exists must be well hidden / and
there
is no help found on this basic feature.

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