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Protection Gets Removed!!
I have a spreadsheet I set up for one of our departments who is sending it
out to a group of 60 users and they have to fill it in and send it back. In the workbook there are only a certain number of cells that are allowed for data entering and the rest are password protected. For some reason as soon as a user starts entering data in the unprotected section of the worksheet the whole sheet becomes unprotected. This is causing issues because there are some users who are deleting formulas in the workbook. One other comment ... I have a macro set up so a user chooses a factory and then its respective product lines show up in the worksheet. In order to get these columns to hide and unhide the macro first unprotects the worksheet and then protects it again once it is done running. Any suggestions? Thanks!! Meg |
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Protection Gets Removed!!
Hi Meg, did you protect the worksheet, if yes should be working no reason to
do what you have described unless somebody is entering the password to unprotect it "Meg Partridge" wrote: I have a spreadsheet I set up for one of our departments who is sending it out to a group of 60 users and they have to fill it in and send it back. In the workbook there are only a certain number of cells that are allowed for data entering and the rest are password protected. For some reason as soon as a user starts entering data in the unprotected section of the worksheet the whole sheet becomes unprotected. This is causing issues because there are some users who are deleting formulas in the workbook. One other comment ... I have a macro set up so a user chooses a factory and then its respective product lines show up in the worksheet. In order to get these columns to hide and unhide the macro first unprotects the worksheet and then protects it again once it is done running. Any suggestions? Thanks!! Meg |
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Protection Gets Removed!!
Yes the worksheet is protected ... I did a test where I ran the macro and the
sheet is protected. Then, I go and enter a data point and I go to the Tools, Protection, and I can see that the sheet is now no longer protected. No one is entering the password. It automatically becomes unprotected. "Eduardo" wrote: Hi Meg, did you protect the worksheet, if yes should be working no reason to do what you have described unless somebody is entering the password to unprotect it "Meg Partridge" wrote: I have a spreadsheet I set up for one of our departments who is sending it out to a group of 60 users and they have to fill it in and send it back. In the workbook there are only a certain number of cells that are allowed for data entering and the rest are password protected. For some reason as soon as a user starts entering data in the unprotected section of the worksheet the whole sheet becomes unprotected. This is causing issues because there are some users who are deleting formulas in the workbook. One other comment ... I have a macro set up so a user chooses a factory and then its respective product lines show up in the worksheet. In order to get these columns to hide and unhide the macro first unprotects the worksheet and then protects it again once it is done running. Any suggestions? Thanks!! Meg |
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