hi,

i want to be able to hide and unhide columns in excel depending upon a value
selected and then veryfying whether or not a value entered is correct. but
the only disadvantage of this is that any user who does not enter the value
correctly can just go to the sheet and select column -- unhide. i want to
prevent this from happening.

what is the best way to handle this?

thanks in advance,
geebee

One way might be to remove the row and column headers. Tools - Options -
View - uncheck Row & Column Headers.

This will make it distinctly more difficult to unhide the columns without
having to resort to some form of protection.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"geebee" wrote:

hi,

i want to be able to hide and unhide columns in excel depending upon a value
selected and then veryfying whether or not a value entered is correct. but
the only disadvantage of this is that any user who does not enter the value
correctly can just go to the sheet and select column -- unhide. i want to
prevent this from happening.

what is the best way to handle this?

thanks in advance,
geebee

On 27 May, 16:33, geebee (noSPAMs) wrote:
*i want to
prevent this from happening.
what is the best way to handle this?

This may not be the _best_ way, but will work. Just turn off the menu
items.

Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu
Bar").Controls("Format").Controls("&Column").Contr ols("&Unhide").Enabled
= False
Application.CommandBars("Column").Controls("&Unhid e").Enabled = False

You might need to re-do the Column menu on the workbook_RightClick
event.

hi,

i have the following:

If Sheets("detail").Range("IV1").Value = "admin" Then
Sheets("detail").Select
Columns("A").Visible = True
Else
Sheets("detail").Select
Columns("G").Visible = False
End If

but i am getting an "object does not support this method" error message. why?

thanks in advance,
geebee


"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

One way might be to remove the row and column headers. Tools - Options -
View - uncheck Row & Column Headers.

This will make it distinctly more difficult to unhide the columns without
having to resort to some form of protection.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"geebee" wrote:

hi,

i want to be able to hide and unhide columns in excel depending upon a value
selected and then veryfying whether or not a value entered is correct. but
the only disadvantage of this is that any user who does not enter the value
correctly can just go to the sheet and select column -- unhide. i want to
prevent this from happening.

what is the best way to handle this?

thanks in advance,
geebee

hi,

i am getting an "invalid procedure call or argument". on the following:

Application.CommandBars("Worksheet
MenuBar").Controls("Format").Controls("&Column").C ontrols("&Unhide").Enabled
= True


thanks in advance,
geebee


"atpgroups" wrote:

On 27 May, 16:33, geebee (noSPAMs) wrote:
i want to
prevent this from happening.
what is the best way to handle this?

This may not be the _best_ way, but will work. Just turn off the menu
items.

Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu
Bar").Controls("Format").Controls("&Column").Contr ols("&Unhide").Enabled
= False
Application.CommandBars("Column").Controls("&Unhid e").Enabled = False

You might need to re-do the Column menu on the workbook_RightClick
event.

On 27 May, 20:05, geebee (noSPAMs) wrote:

i am getting an "invalid procedure call or argument". *on the following:

Application.CommandBars("Worksheet
MenuBar").Controls("Format").Controls("&Column").C ontrols("&Unhide").Enable d
= True

Is that space in the middle of"Enabled" really there? That will do
it.
Alternatively, find your own way to the menu item..
Select the words "Application.CommandBars" and then right-click and
"Add watch"
You will then see the tree of all the command bar properties, and you
can burrow on down the tree. I suspect that (for whatever reason) your
commandbars have different names