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Hello,
In a protected excel sheet some cells are unlocked to be able to put data in it.
Apparently these cells can get locked when people are copy/paste data from another workbook to these cells.
How can I avoid that this happens?
Thanks!
Bieke
Hello,
In a protected excel sheet some cells are unlocked to be able to put data in it.
Apparently these cells can get locked when people are copy/paste data from another workbook to these cells.
How can I avoid that this happens?
Thanks!
Bieke
I guess this is happening because cells in other workbook are locked
Try not allowing users to format cells in protected sheet
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This setting applies only to unlocked cells. If a cell is unlocked to start with, this will not prevent formatting that cell.Originally Posted by kev_
I have tried this and cannot reproduce it. Steps:
- Format a cell to be unlocked
- Protect the sheet
- Copy a locked cell from another workbook
- Paste to the unlocked cell on the protected sheet
- The unlocked cell value is updated, and the cell remains locked
However, if the sheet is not protected, then copying a locked cell and pasting to an unlocked cell will cause the target cell to become locked.
Can you provide more detail about how these unlocked cells are getting locked?
@6StringJazzer - yes I was half asleep there - protection only works on locked cells - doh!
This is the perennial old chestnut about being unable to prevent copy paste format in isolation.
I too have been unable to re-create this problem - but that does not mean that it cannot happen under certain circumstances or in a different version of Excel
One option would be a macro to auto-run whenever the values in required "unlocked" cells are amended
- this procedure unlocks required ranges any time any one of those cells is amended
Place in sheet module:It unlocks all the cells that should be unlocked
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If you do not know the cause of the changes, you could do the same when any of the "unlocked" cells are selected
Last edited by kev_; 02-22-2018 at 01:23 PM.
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