I have a sheet which has pasted links from another sheet but
consolidates the information, I can sort this information if the sheet
is unprotected, but not if it is protected. I really need to protect
the sheet to stop inadvertently overwriting the pasted link.
I think I can do this by having the Macro unprotect, do the sort and
then reprotect. Is there a way of doing this easier? and is there a
way of stoping anyone of reading a macro which at times is as
important as protecting the data it points to. Thanks EPJ

just an example.
this protects the sheet, but allows code to run while it's protected.
in the thisworkbook module you could have something like this:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Worksheets("Sheet1").Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True
End Sub

then you could have your sort code like this:

Sub sort()
With Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:C10")
.Sort Key1:=.Range("A2"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlGuess, _
OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, _
DataOption1:=xlSortNormal
End With
End Sub


or you could just protect the sheet, then unprotect iwith code, run your sort
code and then protect it again.

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Gary


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I have a sheet which has pasted links from another sheet but
consolidates the information, I can sort this information if the sheet
is unprotected, but not if it is protected. I really need to protect
the sheet to stop inadvertently overwriting the pasted link.
I think I can do this by having the Macro unprotect, do the sort and
then reprotect. Is there a way of doing this easier? and is there a
way of stoping anyone of reading a macro which at times is as
important as protecting the data it points to. Thanks EPJ