Hi Tami

--By default all excel cells are protected. However locking cells has no
effect unless the worksheet is protected.

--Here you are trying to delete a column that contain locked cells. Locked
cells cannot be deleted while the worksheet is protected. (and this is the
message you get while trying to delete a column)

--If you are looking to allow the user to delete columns; then you will need
to unlock the cells before protecting the sheet.
(FormatcellsProtectionLocked)

Hope the above explanasion helps. Have a great week ahead..

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Jacob Skaria


"Tami" wrote:

i have the following code to allow users to Group and Ungroup and delete
columns in a protected worksheet. can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong.
i got it working with grouping/ungrouping, but when i tried to add the
ability to delete columns it stopped working.
p.s. this is my first time using userinterfaceonly...is there something
risky about it or just a work-around because excel's protected worksheets are
so restrictive in what they allow a user to do?
thanks in advance for any and all advice,
tami

Private Sub Workbook_Open()

With Worksheets("Ladders")

.EnableOutlining = True
.Protect AllowDeletingColumns:=True, Password:="paspas", _
userinterfaceonly:=True
End With

End Sub