Could anyone help me with the below:

Would like to have a macro that does the following:

1) Goes to the Unprotect Sheet dialog box where the user will need to enter in
the password.

2) Also would like this macro to load up automatically when I open my
spreadsheet. I know I can use Auto_Open however I want to call this macro
within the Auto_Open macro.

Appreciate your help on the above,

Many Thanks - Al Mackay
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Problem with using macros and unprotect commands is that you can see the
password in your vba code, have password typed in as varable.

Dave



"MrAlMackay" wrote in message
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Could anyone help me with the below:

Would like to have a macro that does the following:

1) Goes to the Unprotect Sheet dialog box where the user will need to
enter in
the password.

2) Also would like this macro to load up automatically when I open my
spreadsheet. I know I can use Auto_Open however I want to call this macro
within the Auto_Open macro.

Appreciate your help on the above,

Many Thanks - Al Mackay
( )

Al,

If you attempt to unprotect a password-protected sheet without
supplying the password, Excel will automatically prompt for the
password.

ActiveSheet.Unprotect



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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com




"MrAlMackay" wrote in message
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Dave

Don't actually want the spreadsheet to be unprotected through
the macro.

I only want to get to the dialog box (@ this point I would need
the macro to
end) as this is when the user would type in the password or
alternatively if it
isn't one of the administrators they would exit out.

Is it possible to get the dialog box through VBA?

Appreciate your help on this.

Many Thanks, Al

Cheers for your help with this.

Worked a treat.

Thanks, Al.

Have a similar issue but want to call the the Protect Sheet dialog box
via VBA to allow the user to enter a password if desired - can someone
advise how I might do this?

Thanks!

Jeff

Thanks Ben - I'll give that a try but wanted to clarify - Did you mean
that this will only work in Excel 2003? If so, are there other
solutions for Excel 97, 2K & XP? Am wanting this code to work across
all versions from 97 onwards ...

Jeff