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    Unhappy VBA locking and unlocking cells in protected sheet

    Hello, I have a struggle with this:

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    It's for a test and it is supposed to lock the answer cells when you type "done" in B18. It doesn't work when the sheet is locked, it gives me unable to change protection of the range class message, however when the sheet is unlocked it changes the state of the cell from locked to unlocked and vice versa, just as it should. I am quite new to VBA and I have no idea if it is even possible to do. Could anyone help me? Thanks.

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    Re: VBA locking and unlocking cells in protected sheet

    If the sheet is protected you first have to unprotect it to change cell locks.

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    If there is a password you need to put the password in quotes after the Unprotect/Protect methods.

    Also I recommend updating the misleading indentation as shown.

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    Re: VBA locking and unlocking cells in protected sheet

    Yes! It works now, thank you.

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