Filtering Tables on Password Protected Sheet

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Hello Everyone. I am using Excel 2007 and I cannot get my table to allow filtering when my worksheet is password protected. I recorded a macro to unprotect the worksheet, sort the table, then protect the worksheet again. My problem is that when I protect the sheet again, I lose the ability to filter the table even though the macro includes the following code when it protects the sheet again.

ActiveSheet.Protect DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True, AllowFiltering:=True

By trying different things I have found that if I password protect the sheet BEFORE the above code, filtering still works but the page is no longer password protected. It is simply protected (without a password). If I password protect the sheet after the above code, the sheet is password protected, but then I cannot filter the table.

Is there some way to allow filtering AND to have the sheet password protected?

 

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An update. If I type the password in manually, the table can still use filter data. But, since I need a macro to sort the table, I need the macro to password protect the sheet too.