Shared workbooks have a lot of restictions on them. In XL help type in Shared
Workbook Restrictions and select the unavaliable features. You will see that
protection changes among others is not available.

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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"parttimer" wrote:

I am having a hard time figuring out how to lock an individual worksheet. I
have a shared workbook that has 5 worksheets that each need to be locked at
various times during the day. How can I lock each individual shared
worksheet and
not affect the others??