Im helping my friend here in the office but I don't know what to do in his problem. The problem is that he can not edit some cell in excel. He downloaded an excel file with a template of a document he needed. He can add in to the other cells and edit some cells but he can not edit some specific cells. I tried to re"Save as" the document but still can't do. I also search about the "Allow editing directly in cells but it is checked. I'm lost here please help. Any help will be much appreciated. TY!
Go to Review --> unprotect sheet, unprotect it and then edit the cells
Most probably some of your cells contains some specific formula which was protected by the creator of the document. Unprotect the sheet to unlock the cell editing.
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I cannot get rid of these extra sheets in excel vba. only the sheets with a name exist.
I had exactly the same problem. I used the option Book Inspection in the Information Menu, then I selected remove hidden objects and it luckily worked. See the image attached, my excel is in Spanish so maybe the option is not really called "Book inspection" in the English version.
Hope this is useful.
Pd- Unhide the legitimate sheets because it will delete all hidden sheets. I suggest trying it in a copy of the book. Menu Option
I have an excel sheet with 100s of rows. I want to be able to lock a particular range from being edited while the others can be left editable. And protect the locked range with a password.
Please help
Activesheet.protect locks the whole sheet. I want it only for a few cells.
F1 opens the Excel help. If you do a search in there, or on google, the top result would be the following link:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Lock-or-unlock-specific-areas-of-a-protected-worksheet-75481b72-db8a-4267-8c43-042a5f2cd93a
This should help you out.
In short:
Right click on the cells you want editable
Format Cells...
Tab Protection
For cells that people should be able to Edit: Uncheck "Locked". For cells that people should NOT be able to edit, leave the check for "Locked".
Click OK.
Next, go to the Review tab in the Ribbon and protect your sheet as normal.
I wanna proctect a specific area or only rows in a excel sheet where the user can make changes.
the red area should be protected, is this possible and realizeable with vba? And is it possible to make the protec scalable, when the user insert a new line?
Thanks for your suggestion!, I know my english is no quite good... -.-
I know ther are exist many question about this subject but i didn't found the right answer in following question:
How to protect cells in Excel but allow...
Different cell protection in...
I hope you can help me...
You first have to pick which cells aren't protected by setting the Locked to false
Worksheets("Main").Range("B2:E4").Locked = False
Then you have to use to modify the cells
Worksheets("Main").Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True
I have a rather large workbook and I'm mainly looking to determine which fields I don't use that I can prune out of the report for maintenance purposes. Is there a way to click on a cell and see a list of all the cells that have used it or to click on a cell and see which pivot it's referencing?
You want 'trace dependents/precedents'...not sure exactly where it's located in Excel 2003, as it's been a while.
In Excel 2007, if you click on a cell, then go to the formulas tab in the Ribbon, there is an icon for tracing dependecies. Arrows will appear to show you all cells that reference that cell.
In Excel 2013 this function is found under the FORMULAS tab.
Trace Dependents is likely what you want.
Alright I know this isn't 100% related to programming (the Excel book in question doesn't use VBA at all) but I'm hoping someone can help me out with this or point me in the right direction.
My boss got a spreadsheet from a vendor that has a combobox/dropdown list with various part numbers; when you select one it populates the rest of the form with a lookup containing additional items. I've been tasked with "cracking" this and finding the list that they're using to populate so we can make use of it.
The thing is... there's no VBA code, no macros, no data connections, and only one Worksheet displayed in Excel while the lookup code references a Sheet1. I've tried to display hidden worksheets and it says there are none... so where on earth could this list be kept? My boss is getting impatient and is asking me if I've broken it yet. It's not a big deal if it can't be done, I just have no clue where to continue looking for it and I don't know what to tell my boss when he asks me if I'm done.
Can anyone help?
It's possible to hide a worksheet using VBA so that it can't be unhidden from the UI.
Try the method for un-hiding all hidden workhseets outlined here:
http://www.automateexcel.com/2004/12/14/excel_vba_unhide_all_worksheets/
My guess is that it is a Data Validation list which references a constant list of values or a range on a "Very Hidden" sheet. In Excel 2007, select one of the cells with the drop-down, click on the "Data" tab in the Ribbon, click on "Data Validation" in the Ribbon and see what you have. In Excel 2003 it is the Data -> Validation... command.
Another possibility if you know the name of the worksheet is "Sheet1" is to add a new worksheet, enter "=Sheet1!A1" into cell A1 of the new worksheet, and copy this cell down and to the right for as large of an area as you need to see the data you are interested in.
If you can post a URL to download the workbook (assuming it is not a trade secret) you would be more likely to get an accurate answer.
Could it be some data stored on the same sheet.
Possibly in columns which are either hidden, or which are far off the actual page?
Isn't this just data from the worksheet only?
Column header dropdown lists acts as filters, they show distinct values of a column.
This is a feature of Excel.
The items could be cached from a currently unavailable resource. Try saving it out to xml and searching for a known string.
Click on the cell that display a drop down list when selected
From the menubar select data>validation
In the dialog box copy the content of the source text box
Now paste the content on any empty cell on your worksheet
Select a drag it down to see the values populating the list
Chris
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I am assuming that you have broken this by now, but just in case you havent. This is certainly a case of data validation using a named range which is house on another sheet that was designated "very Hidden" from the vba console. You will need to open up the VBA project of this worksheet and designated the "very Hidden" sheet to just Hidden and then you will be able to unhide it, or the other setting at which point it will be viewable.