Auto Filter & Protection

steve case

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Well, I'm almost done with the entry & edit forms on this little project, but there's one last wrinkle, and it's what the user really wanted!

It's a simple spreadsheet page with "Auto Filter" buttons at the top of each column. Is there a way to protect the contents of the cells but still allow the auto filter buttons to function?
 

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put this in the sheet code
Code: 
Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
    Me.Protect Password:="123", UserInterFaceOnly:=True
    Me.EnableAutoFilter = True
End Sub
 
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You can tweak 97 and 2000 to work as well, something like this in the Workbook module:

<font face=Courier New><SPAN style="color:darkblue">Option</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:darkblue">Explicit</SPAN>

<SPAN style="color:darkblue">Private</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:darkblue">Sub</SPAN> Workbook_Open()
    <SPAN style="color:darkblue">With</SPAN> Sheets("Sheet1")
        .Protect "password", UserInterfaceOnly:=<SPAN style="color:darkblue">True</SPAN>
        .EnableAutoFilter = <SPAN style="color:darkblue">True</SPAN>
    <SPAN style="color:darkblue">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:darkblue">With</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:darkblue">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:darkblue">Sub</SPAN></FONT>

It will protect the sheet with a password (Change it accordingly), and will enable the autofilter in Sheet1.
 
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How about this one:

I want users (they have Excel 2000) to be able to edit all cells except for a small range (some data validation conditions). I don't want them to be able to add columns.

I do want them to be able to use autofilter.

Many thanks anyone who is still watching this thread.

Andrew
 
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