How To Lock Cells and Columns without Protecting Worksheet

I have several areas in my worksheet that I need to protect the formula's, my spreadsheet also has auto filter therefore I can't protect the worksheet or the filter won't work.

The end user of this worksheet will also need to have the ablitity to delete rows.

The area that I need to protect are as follows:
T17:T83
X17:X83
AE17:AE83
AI17:AI83
AK17:AK83
AW17:AW83

AQ1:AU13

OR if it is easier any cell that contains a formula.

Any and all help is appreciated.

If you're using Excel 2002 or higher, you should be able to protect your
worksheet and also allow the user to use the AutoFilter as well as delete
rows. When protecting the sheet, check "Use AutoFilter" and "Delete rows" in
the "Allow all users of this worksheet to:" check list. If you're using a
prior version of Excel, this selectivity is not available.

"lostinformulas" wrote:

>
> I have several areas in my worksheet that I need to protect the
> formula's, my spreadsheet also has auto filter therefore I can't
> protect the worksheet or the filter won't work.
>
> The end user of this worksheet will also need to have the ablitity to
> delete rows.
>
> The area that I need to protect are as follows:
> T17:T83
> X17:X83
> AE17:AE83
> AI17:AI83
> AK17:AK83
> AW17:AW83
>
> AQ1:AU13
>
> OR if it is easier any cell that contains a formula.
>
> Any and all help is appreciated.
>
>
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Paul

Thank you I found what you were talking about I sure glad you were able to help I would have hated my boss having to show something so simple

You must protect the sheet before any locked cells become locked.

To use autofilter with protected sheets you must(using 2002 and 2003 versions)
set the AF on before protecting the sheet.

See Debra Dalgleish's site for info and some code.

http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter03.html#Protect

If using older version see this google search thread.

http://snipurl.com/rqin


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:42:11 -0500, lostinformulas
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>I have several areas in my worksheet that I need to protect the
>formula's, my spreadsheet also has auto filter therefore I can't
>protect the worksheet or the filter won't work.
>
>The end user of this worksheet will also need to have the ablitity to
>delete rows.
>
>The area that I need to protect are as follows:
>T17:T83
>X17:X83
>AE17:AE83
>AI17:AI83
>AK17:AK83
>AW17:AW83
>
>AQ1:AU13
>
>OR if it is easier any cell that contains a formula.
>
>Any and all help is appreciated.