To the best of my knowledge, you can't in earlier versions. Perhaps you
would have to provide the user with a button and get the users preferences,
then in code, unprotect the sheet and perform the action, then reprotect the
sheet.



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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Stacy Haskins" wrote in message
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That was my objective. How can I allow formatting and
sorting on versions < 2002 and still be protected?
Stacy
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ActiveSheet.Protect Password:="password", _
DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True, _
UserInterfaceOnly:=False

of course formatting and sorting won't be allowed.


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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Stacy Haskins" wrote in
message
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How can I make the following code work on verisons of
Excel lower than 2002?:

ActiveSheet.Protect Password:="password",
DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True,
UserInterfaceOnly:=False, AllowFormattingCells:=True,
AllowFormattingColumns:=True,
AllowFormattingRows:=True,
AllowInsertingColumns:=False,
AllowInsertingRows:=False,
AllowInsertingHyperlinks:=False,
AllowDeletingColumns:=False, AllowDeletingRows:=False,
AllowSorting:=True, AllowFiltering:=False,
AllowUsingPivotTables:=False


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