We were going to get a stable version. If you are really lax you don't even have to enter in a password to apply your desired restrictions. User Alert System provided by - Copyright © 2019 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. Familiar way to protect sheet if you have Classic Menu for Office Classic Menu for Office inserts old menus and toolbars of Microsoft Excel 2003 into Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 Ribbon, and makes Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 look like Excel 2003. If they able to unprotect the sheet then they would be able to alter the formulas. That's a negative 1, which denotes the constant's value.
The protection was designed as a way to deter others from accidentally messing up the structure of your Excel file not to keep them from understanding it. Visit or pages to learn more or join my. When I am not F9ing my formulas, I cycle, cook or play lego with my kids. Under Menus tab you can get familiar toolbarhave exactly the same old toolbars as in your Excel 2003. Third option - macro route : record a macro to go to cell A1 or wherever in the main tab. Growing this community is my number one goal as I have found learning to increase exponentially when lots of people are contributing to the conversation. For later versions of Excel, this will promote the following dialog box: But you can still delete this worksheet — even if it has been password protected.
Good Morning All, I have one workbook with different Tabs that are tied to a master sheet. These can be very powerful decision-making tools if you know how to use them. Open the worksheet you want to protect from viewing, right click the sheet tab and select Hide from the context menu to hide the worksheet. Hopefully by the end of this article you will be comfortable with all the various restrictions you can place on other users who may be working in or viewing your spreadsheets. Screen Shot of Classic Menu for Excel.
It includes Classic Menu for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, Visio and Project 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365. Chandoo, thanks for sharing this. I want to lock the main menu into position 1 of the worksheet tabs for ease of return to the main menu. I find myself doing this quite often when I just want to prevent novice Excel users from accidentally breaking something. I learned a lot whilte researching for that blog post and I'm sure it will open your eyes about computer passwords in general if you have never delved into that topic before. And yYou can get access the Protect Sheet command in the old Toolbars according to the following screenshot: Figure 2: Protect Sheet in Microsoft Excel 2010's Toolbar Please click to know more information and free download. Please do as follows to protect a specific worksheet from viewing in Excel.
To go a step ahead i did it in excel 2003 and it worked fine, but when the same file i open in 2007 the properties can be modified without providing the password. Speaking of things you can or can't do with an Excel worksheet tab; the other day I unconsciously reached for an affordance that wasn't there. When you do, Excel applies the property and then selects the first sheet, Sheet1, which is a bit distracting. Hello, I need to lock a worksheet tab Main menu in place so that it is always visible. Thank you and see you around. Moreover, I was able to hit one of the pages in our MrExcel search archive but that thread just mentions one resolution - to create a macro, here is the link: Hi Bolter Rather than go the macro or vba route which, by the way Stormseed, I did not find as your link was to another post altogether , I would suggest you put a hyperlink at the top of each child tab which could take you to the parent tab.
Eg when you make a new worksheet in the workbook file and name the sheet eg sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3. I can not find the answer to this anywhere. When you return to Excel, Sheet3 isn't visible. Chandoo, please help, or at least confirm what we suspect so we can move on and deal with this problem in another way. I like the idea of hiding the tab, with a 'Button' for the password to view the tab and the offices with their own password can make changes on the unlocked cells.
Restricting Your User's Abilities Microsoft Excel's worksheet password protection options have been known to trip people up from time to time. The add-in runs in Excel 2007 - 2013 and can even remove passwords from multiple worksheet tabs at the same time! To put it bluntly: it is simply too easy for others to get past the security setup inside an Excel worksheet. See screenshot: Now the specific worksheet is protected for viewing in the workbook. That behavior is normal, so don't let it bother you. By sharing this post on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ you are not only providing others with great information, you are creating exposure for The Spreadsheet Guru website. Of course Excel has no such capability, as I would have remembered if I wasn't working in the morning before coffee.
Of course, you can always break any type of protection using some crackware, that is not the point of this discussion though. The status of a particular cell determines whether the respective cell will be allowed to be modified or not if the worksheet protection is enabled. Each worksheet is hyperlinked from the main worksheet, and each non-main worksheet has a hyperlink back to the main worksheet. Another option is to remember that you can right-click on the worksheet tab controls at the left of the tabs at the bottom of the Excel window. The solution given by you above works fine in Excel 2003. Hi Chadoo, I am working on an Excel 2013. Jonathan wonders if there is a way, much like freezing a pane, to freeze a worksheet tab.
Please click to know more information and free download. Thanks for your help, cgreen You can make all the tabs hidden except for the master Protect the workbook Then when the user clicks the button or whatever you have on the master it will show a userform the userform will ask for a password and if correct it will unhide the specific sheet. Feedback Buttons provided by - Copyright © 2019 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. Rather than having to scroll across the tabs at the bottom using the scroll key. I could password protect each sheet, but then the different offices would have to take extra steps to unprotect to enter data, then protect. Find out Protect Sheet command in Ribbon without Classic Menu for Office There are also two methods to protect sheet to get command button in Ribbon: Method A: Protect Sheet button in Review tab Go to the Changes group under Review tab, you will find out the Protect Sheet button as soon as possible.
I have explained how to add macros before and to ensure that the workbook is saved as a macro-enabled workbook please see either the article on or the article on for more details. I don't think this way works in 2007. However, they can be messed up pretty easily if someone doesn't know what they are doing. I know there is only a difference of two clicks on the mouse however when you have 30 kids lined up it takes its toll. If you are using Microsoft Excel 2007 and have installed Classic Menu for Office on your computer, you will easily find out the Additional Toolbar at far right of Toolbars under Menus. I am visitng your blogs since last two weeks and there on I learned so many things in excel, how to create formulas. At present I have to use the scroll key.