I have set my w/sheet to "protect" with some cell left "un-protected" for
easy data entry. I want to share my w/sheet and increase it's security level.
Is there a way to set the w/sheet on a "auto-protect" mode so that the file
is "protected" every time I close the file?. Using the manual "protect sheet"
is not so efficient as we tend to forget to "re-protect" it again when we
"unprotect" the w/sheet for maintainance purposes.

You could get excel to automatically protect sheets when the workbook is
closed. To do this you would use the workbook beforeclose event. Right Click
the Excel icon just to the left of the file menu. Select View Code to display
the Workbook code sheet. Paste this code into the sheet.

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
Dim sht As Worksheet
For Each sht In Worksheets
sht.Protect
Next sht
End Sub

This will protect every worksheet in your workbook. If you want to protect
just one sheet say "Sheet1" then the code should read:

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
Sheets("Sheet1").Protect
End Sub

Hope this helps
Rowan

"West" wrote:

I have set my w/sheet to "protect" with some cell left "un-protected" for
easy data entry. I want to share my w/sheet and increase it's security level.
Is there a way to set the w/sheet on a "auto-protect" mode so that the file
is "protected" every time I close the file?. Using the manual "protect sheet"
is not so efficient as we tend to forget to "re-protect" it again when we
"unprotect" the w/sheet for maintainance purposes.