Excel Macro; Adding Password

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zeromaim Posts 10 Registration date Monday July 28, 2008 Status Member Last seen August 8, 2008 - Jul 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Pujdo - Mar 13, 2013 at 10:39 AM

Hello,

Hope you anyone can help me with this...

I need to create a macro that unlocks a password-protected sheet with password "password", do some instruction, then locks it again with same password.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

zero

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Ivan-hoe Posts 433 Registration date Saturday February 16, 2008 Status Member Last seen October 17, 2008 110
Aug 5, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Hello zero,
the syntax is quite simple

ActiveSheet.Unprotect ("MyPassWord")
'instructions
ActiveSheet.Protect ("MyPassWord")

for more details, I suggest you type "worksheet.protect" and "worksheet.unprotect" in the help file of visual basic editor.
Ivan

zeromaim Posts 10 Registration date Monday July 28, 2008 Status Member Last seen August 8, 2008
Aug 6, 2008 at 07:22 AM

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for this, and other one as well.
I'm not actually a programer. I self-studied excel and i'm good at using formulas.
I just recently learn about macro and I used to just for recording to eliminate the circular ref error with formulas.
I was glad to have found this site and have read one of your response.

Thanks,

Anton

DaveyBoy
Oct 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM

The ActiveSheet.Protect ("MyPassWord") works, but what if you want the set certain "abilities" to True when assigning the password as in the following code.

ActiveSheet.Protect ("MyPassWord") DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True _
, AllowSorting:=True, AllowFiltering:=True, AllowUsingPivotTables:=True

This errors out when the Macro is ran. Is there a different Syntax for a case like this?

Ivan-hoe Posts 433 Registration date Saturday February 16, 2008 Status Member Last seen October 17, 2008 110 > DaveyBoy
Oct 8, 2008 at 06:46 AM

Hello,
try this syntax :

ActiveSheet.Protect PassWord:="MyPassWord", DrawingObjects:=True,  _ 
Contents:=True,  Scenarios:=True, AllowSorting:=True, AllowFiltering:=True,  _ 
AllowUsingPivotTables:=True

Ivan