Hello,

The Excel version at work was finally upgrated to Excel 2003 this past week.

In Excel 2000, I used to have the command "Protect/Unprotect sheet"
identified in the toolbar.
If the sheet was protected, the icon showed in text "Unprotect Sheet...",
and when the sheet was not protected, the icon switched to read "Protect
Sheet..."
So when I would examine one sheet after another (quickly with Ctrl+PgDown) ,
it would indicate the status of each sheet at a glance. The icon did take a
bit of space on the tolbar, but at least, the info was useful.


However, in Excel 2003, I dragged the "Protect Sheet" command to the
toolbar, but it now has a padlock icon in front of a range of cells.
The problem for me is that this icon does not identify if the active sheet
is protected or not, i.e. the icon is not altered from a protected sheet to
an unprotected sheet. It never moves.

Is there a way that I can retain the old way of showing the
"Protect/Unprotect Sheet" icon?

thanks and rgds

André