Protecting cells by coluor
 

I have used 3 colours in my spreadsheet 1 for headings /titles, 1 fo
data entry and 1 for calculated fields. How can I protect all cell
with a specific colour to prevent users from changing contents
formul

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Protects all cells which are coloured Light Yellow (colour index 36):

Sub PrtcColor()
Dim cell As Range
With ActiveSheet
.Unprotect
For Each cell In .UsedRange
If cell.Interior.ColorIndex = 36 Then
cell.Locked = True
Else
cell.Locked = False
End If
Next cell
.Protect
End With
End Sub

Hope this helps
Rowan

st120869 wrote:
I have used 3 colours in my spreadsheet 1 for headings /titles, 1 for
data entry and 1 for calculated fields. How can I protect all cells
with a specific colour to prevent users from changing contents /
formula

Protecting cells by coluor
 

Great, thanks this works. As an aside it will not work if any cells are
merged - took a while to work this one out as I kept on getting an
error message.


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Protecting cells by coluor
 

You're welcome. You will find a lot of things don't work with merged
cells. As a result I never use them.

Regards
Rowan

st120869 wrote:
Great, thanks this works. As an aside it will not work if any cells are
merged - took a while to work this one out as I kept on getting an
error message.