I ran into endless troubles protecting sheets, as some know (also, as I now
feel sure must be a common problem already commonly known).

When the sheets were protected, many of the functions of the buttons as well
as required general functions would no longer work. We got around a few of
the restrictions by having unprotect/protect sheet coding at beginning and
end of the macros, but that was a tricky and time-consuming workaround to
the problem which still didn't allow simple things like inserting rows,
etc., to be done. Again, a lot of time and complex coding would have gotten
around that, possibly, but not in the time I had available. So, I've left
the sheets "live", as it were. All of them!

But I've been mulling things over in my mind.

The greatest problem that might not be as easily overcome as other erasures
in these sheets, really, is accidental erasure of those buttons. Granted I
put copies with the attached macros elsewhere in the sheet, out of sight yet
easily accessible. I had originally planned to put them on a hidden sheet
but have too many hidden sheets for data validation purposes so putting them
out of the print area seems a good alternative. Anyway, I got to thinking,
is there a way to "protect" the buttons themselves just from being erased
and perhaps even moved using some sort of VB code? Something that would not
interfere with their function, just would protect them from being eradicated
<g.

I know I'm fishing with this one <g, but this doesn't seem like an
impossibly overly-ambitious thing <g(?).

Thanks.