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my excel list is very long. i want to enable the autofilter to mak
things easy for users going through the database. however, my databas
is protected and the filter cant be used on it. so how do i go abou
doing it

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There are instructions here for allowing filtering on a protected
worksheet (the AutoFilter must be in place before the sheet is protected):

http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter03.html#Protect

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my excel list is very long. i want to enable the autofilter to make
things easy for users going through the database. however, my database
is protected and the filter cant be used on it. so how do i go about
doing it?



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