I believe I'm fairly decent at programming in excel, but I can't figure
out this problem. I've created a spreadsheet with a lot of accounting
data on it (billing, payments history, etc.). I've protected the
entire sheet, but sometimes I need to go back in and change one cell. I
want to keep the rest of the sheet protected so I don't affect any other
numbers, but unlock the cell I'm interested in. I know that this is
possible in Lotus, but I can't find a way to do this in excel. If
anyone has some answers I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in
advance.


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Unprotect the sheet, highlight the whole sheet, right click, 'Format cells',
click 'Protection', uncheck 'Locked' OK
Edit as required and reverse the procedure
Regards,
Alan
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I believe I'm fairly decent at programming in excel, but I can't figure
out this problem. I've created a spreadsheet with a lot of accounting
data on it (billing, payments history, etc.). I've protected the
entire sheet, but sometimes I need to go back in and change one cell. I
want to keep the rest of the sheet protected so I don't affect any other
numbers, but unlock the cell I'm interested in. I know that this is
possible in Lotus, but I can't find a way to do this in excel. If
anyone has some answers I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in
advance.


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If you have certain cells that you want to be able to change regularly.
Unprotect the sheet. Right click on the cells you want click 'Format cells',
'Protection', Click on the 'Locked' check box so it is not selected. Now
Protect the sheet. You can know change data in cells you unlocked but nothing
else.

TC

"Kainoa" wrote:


I believe I'm fairly decent at programming in excel, but I can't figure
out this problem. I've created a spreadsheet with a lot of accounting
data on it (billing, payments history, etc.). I've protected the
entire sheet, but sometimes I need to go back in and change one cell. I
want to keep the rest of the sheet protected so I don't affect any other
numbers, but unlock the cell I'm interested in. I know that this is
possible in Lotus, but I can't find a way to do this in excel. If
anyone has some answers I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in
advance.


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Thanks for the reply guys, but I don't think I explained it right. I
want to be able to unlock the cell without unlocking the sheet. I was
wondering if I could unprotect (unlock) a single cell on the fly, then,
after I' m done editing the sheet lock it again. I just wanted to know
because unprotecting, unlocking, then editing and locking, and then
protecting again is getting pretty tedious. I hope this clears it up.
Thanks again.


Alan:

Unprotect the sheet, highlight the whole sheet, right click, 'Format
cells',
click 'Protection', uncheck 'Locked' OK
Edit as required and reverse the procedure
Regards,
Alan

TC:

If you have certain cells that you want to be able to change
regularly.
Unprotect the sheet. Right click on the cells you want click 'Format
cells',
'Protection', Click on the 'Locked' check box so it is not selected.
Now
Protect the sheet. You can know change data in cells you unlocked but
nothing
else.

TC


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One way to do that is with a couple of macro's,
Try:

Sub Edit_Sheet ()
Sheets("Sheet1").Unprotect ("Password")
End Sub

Sub Edit_Sheet ()
Sheets("Sheet1").Protect ("Password")
End Sub

Copy and paste this in a VB module then assign a couple of keyboard
shortcuts to fire up the macro's easily, if you're unfamiliar with VB code
please post back and I or someone will guide you through it.
Regards.
Alan.
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Thanks for the reply guys, but I don't think I explained it right. I
want to be able to unlock the cell without unlocking the sheet. I was
wondering if I could unprotect (unlock) a single cell on the fly, then,
after I' m done editing the sheet lock it again. I just wanted to know
because unprotecting, unlocking, then editing and locking, and then
protecting again is getting pretty tedious. I hope this clears it up.
Thanks again.


Alan:

Unprotect the sheet, highlight the whole sheet, right click, 'Format
cells',
click 'Protection', uncheck 'Locked' OK
Edit as required and reverse the procedure
Regards,
Alan

TC:

If you have certain cells that you want to be able to change
regularly.
Unprotect the sheet. Right click on the cells you want click 'Format
cells',
'Protection', Click on the 'Locked' check box so it is not selected.
Now
Protect the sheet. You can know change data in cells you unlocked but
nothing
else.

TC


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Should be:

Sub Edit_Sheet ()
Sheets("Sheet1").Unprotect ("Password")
End Sub

Sub Edit_Sheet2 ()
Sheets("Sheet1").Protect ("Password")
End Sub
"Alan" wrote in message
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One way to do that is with a couple of macro's,
Try:

Sub Edit_Sheet ()
Sheets("Sheet1").Unprotect ("Password")
End Sub

Sub Edit_Sheet ()
Sheets("Sheet1").Protect ("Password")
End Sub

Copy and paste this in a VB module then assign a couple of keyboard
shortcuts to fire up the macro's easily, if you're unfamiliar with VB code
please post back and I or someone will guide you through it.
Regards.
Alan.
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Thanks for the reply guys, but I don't think I explained it right. I
want to be able to unlock the cell without unlocking the sheet. I was
wondering if I could unprotect (unlock) a single cell on the fly, then,
after I' m done editing the sheet lock it again. I just wanted to know
because unprotecting, unlocking, then editing and locking, and then
protecting again is getting pretty tedious. I hope this clears it up.
Thanks again.


Alan:

Unprotect the sheet, highlight the whole sheet, right click, 'Format
cells',
click 'Protection', uncheck 'Locked' OK
Edit as required and reverse the procedure
Regards,
Alan

TC:

If you have certain cells that you want to be able to change
regularly.
Unprotect the sheet. Right click on the cells you want click 'Format
cells',
'Protection', Click on the 'Locked' check box so it is not selected.
Now
Protect the sheet. You can know change data in cells you unlocked but
nothing
else.

TC


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