Workbook Protectionand stiil use Comment function

I have a shared workbook that requires some fields to be used for data entry
and some fields for comments ( using the Xl comment function), however, when
I protect the workbook the overall comment function is also looked (still
allows viewing a previous comment). Is it possible to overcome this scenarion
so that one doesn't have to Unprotect the book or sheet everytime a comment
needs to be inserted or edited.

Many thanks

Olympiad

In Excel 2003 you can edit comments in protected sheet, if you check the
option for Edit Objects in the Protect Sheet dialog.
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tj


"olympiad" wrote:

> I have a shared workbook that requires some fields to be used for data entry
> and some fields for comments ( using the Xl comment function), however, when
> I protect the workbook the overall comment function is also looked (still
> allows viewing a previous comment). Is it possible to overcome this scenarion
> so that one doesn't have to Unprotect the book or sheet everytime a comment
> needs to be inserted or edited.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Olympiad

And in versions before xl2002 (xl2002 has the same dialog as xl2003), there's a
checkbox that can be checked when the worksheet is protected.

tjtjjtjt wrote:
>
> In Excel 2003 you can edit comments in protected sheet, if you check the
> option for Edit Objects in the Protect Sheet dialog.
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> tj
>
> "olympiad" wrote:
>
> > I have a shared workbook that requires some fields to be used for data entry
> > and some fields for comments ( using the Xl comment function), however, when
> > I protect the workbook the overall comment function is also looked (still
> > allows viewing a previous comment). Is it possible to overcome this scenarion
> > so that one doesn't have to Unprotect the book or sheet everytime a comment
> > needs to be inserted or edited.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Olympiad

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Dave Peterson