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Password Protection - Select Unlocked Cells Only
Sorry if I’m asking a question that has already been posted in the pas
but none of the answers that I could find seem to address my explici problem. I have a workbook which contains 20 worksheets. What I want to do i password protect all the worksheets in one go, save the protecte version and send to users. However, I want to allow the intended use to only select those cells that are unlocked. I wrote a simple macro and everything was fine, until I tried openin the saved copy of the password protected workbook, alas the protecte cells were no longer protected. The only way I have been able t achieve this is by having an Auto_Open macro that protects cells eac time the workbook is opened. However, if the user disables macros the this crude fix obviously does not work. Any advice on this matter greatly received, Thanks, Ten -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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Password Protection - Select Unlocked Cells Only
Hi Tenk
A macro is unfortunately the only way to set this. So a common and just-as-crude workaround is to make the workbook useless with macros disabled. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Tenk " skrev i melding ... Sorry if I'm asking a question that has already been posted in the past but none of the answers that I could find seem to address my explicit problem. I have a workbook which contains 20 worksheets. What I want to do is password protect all the worksheets in one go, save the protected version and send to users. However, I want to allow the intended user to only select those cells that are unlocked. I wrote a simple macro and everything was fine, until I tried opening the saved copy of the password protected workbook, alas the protected cells were no longer protected. The only way I have been able to achieve this is by having an Auto_Open macro that protects cells each time the workbook is opened. However, if the user disables macros then this crude fix obviously does not work. Any advice on this matter greatly received, Thanks, Tenk --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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