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Michelle Thompson Michelle Thompson is offline
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Default Protection of many sheets

Macro worked great, but the person opening the file can just go to
tools-protection-unprotect sheet and they don't even have to enter a
password to unprotect it. How does the password I input in the macro become
'activated' so to speak? Do I have to password protect the workbook somehow,
because the password that I coded into the macro, I never typed in anywhere
else in the file...?

Thanks!

"Harald Staff" wrote:

Hi

Not without macro code. Here it is:

Sub LockEm()
Dim i As Long
Dim PW As String
Dim WS As Worksheet
PW = InputBox("Password:")
On Error GoTo MyErr
For Each WS In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
WS.Protect (PW)
Next
MsgBox i & " errors while protecting", vbInformation
Exit Sub
MyErr:
i = i + 1
Resume Next
End Sub

Sub UnLockEm()
Dim i As Long
Dim PW As String
Dim WS As Worksheet
PW = InputBox("Password:")
On Error GoTo MyErr
For Each WS In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
WS.Unprotect (PW)
Next
MsgBox i & " errors while unprotecting", vbInformation
Exit Sub
MyErr:
i = i + 1
Resume Next
End Sub

HTH. Best wishes Harald
"Adam" skrev i melding
...
I have a workbook with 50 sheets. I would like to protect all of these

sheets
with the same password at the same time. i.e. i do not want to protect the
workbook but every single sheet and I don't want to go through every sheet
protecting it.
Is this possible?