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MS Office Forum / Excel / General Excel Questions / March 2008Protect sheet but hide rows?
Hello All, I have a large spreadsheet that is used as a tool by many people, the formula in the spreadsheet have to be protected to prevent them being overwritten or deleted by users however I would like the users to be able to hide or unhide rows/columns. When I use the protect worksheet function I don't seem to be able to allow hide/unhide. Any help very welcome! Thanks If the hiding and unhiding is to allow people to just see information that pertains to them, the AutoFilter feature might work better for you. > Hello All, > I have a large spreadsheet that is used as a tool by many people, the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Any help very welcome! > Thanks What version of Excel are you using. In Excel 2003 there is an option to permit formatting Rows (and/or columns) which will permit the operations on a protected sheet. Not sure if 2002 (XP) had that option or not (I believe it did), but 2000 and earlier do not have it. If these are always the same rows to be hidden/revealed, then you could do it with two macros - either attached to a button on the sheet or not; one to unprotect the sheet, unhide the rows, protect it again; the other to unprotect, hide, protect again. But I"m betting that ~*Amanda*~ has the better idea. > Hello All, > I have a large spreadsheet that is used as a tool by many people, the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Any help very welcome! > Thanks Thank you this option to allow formatting of rows/columns works perfectly! (Auto filter is not applicable as the ablity to hide rows/columns is to allow users to personalise their view rather than filter information.) > What version of Excel are you using. In Excel 2003 there is an option to > permit formatting Rows (and/or columns) which will permit the operations on a [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Any help very welcome! > > Thanks Quick question on this (sorry to hijack the discussion!). will this unprotecting and then protecting again work if you have a password used? obviously you don't want this to become common knowledge which I guess could be the case if someone goes into the macro itself. > What version of Excel are you using. In Excel 2003 there is an option to > permit formatting Rows (and/or columns) which will permit the operations on a [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Any help very welcome! > > Thanks ActiveSheet.Unprotect Password:="justme" do the things you do ActiveSheet.Protect Password:="justme" If you lock the priject for viewing, users cannot see the code ir the password. Open VBE and right-click on your project/workbook and select Properties>Protection>Lock project for viewing. Give it a password then Save the workbook, close and re-open to see protection is on that project. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP >Quick question on this (sorry to hijack the discussion!). > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> > Any help very welcome! >> > Thanks Perfect, thanks for your help! Ian > ActiveSheet.Unprotect Password:="justme" > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >> > Any help very welcome! > >> > Thanks Glad to help. Gord >Perfect, thanks for your help! > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >> >> > Any help very welcome! >> >> > Thanks |
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