Protecting cell contents and using autofilter

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Alright I'm just setting up a workbook for some people at work who are somewhat excel illiterate (and I'm only slightly less illiterate :wink: ) and I was wondering if anyone knew a way that I could protect the sheet so that nobody accidentally screws up my formulas after I leave (only here for the summer) but at the same time still have the autofilter tabs work. I'd like to be able to leave the autofilter tabs on since it would be useful to have, however it's pretty likely that if somebody screws up a formula nobody is going to figure out how to fix it.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
 

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Put this in the Workbook module:

<font face=Courier New>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">Private</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN> Workbook_Open()
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">With</SPAN> Sheets("Sheet1")
        .EnableAutoFilter = <SPAN style="color:#00007F">True</SPAN>
        .Protect "password", UserInterfaceOnly:=<SPAN style="color:#00007F">True</SPAN>
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">With</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN>
</FONT>

and change the sheet name (And the password)
 
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What would be the code to protect the whole workbook instead of just a worksheet?

Juan Pablo González said:
Put this in the Workbook module:

<font face=Courier New>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">Private</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN> Workbook_Open()
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">With</SPAN> Sheets("Sheet1")
        .EnableAutoFilter = <SPAN style="color:#00007F">True</SPAN>
        .Protect "password", UserInterfaceOnly:=<SPAN style="color:#00007F">True</SPAN>
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">With</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN>
</FONT>

and change the sheet name (And the password)
Click to expand...
 
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Oh I am sorry. The code below is to protect Sheet1. How do you protect a whole workbook (with 3 sheets)?

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
With Sheets("Sheet1")
.EnableAutoFilter = True
.Protect "password", UserInterfaceOnly:=True
End With
End Sub
 
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I mean how to protect the whole workbook from users, not matter how many worksheets it has. But it would still allow user interface such as Advanced Filter.
 
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