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I want to protect a worksheet's Formats, but allow editing - is this possible?

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Select the cells that should be ok for editing.
Format|Cells|Protection Tab|Uncheck locked

Then protect the worksheet
tools|protection|protect sheet

There are lots of features that are disabled when you protect the worksheet.
You may want to check to see it this is really what you want.

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I want to protect a worksheet's Formats, but allow editing - is this possible?

Dion


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