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For those who does not know protect or unprotect the sheet using Excel inbuilt function, I will give a brief about the same at the end of this Article. Excel Macro to Protect your Sheet. To protect an Excel Work. Sheet, Worksheet. Protect Method is used. Using this method you will be able to protect your Work. Sheet. Lets see the Syntax and How to use Worksheet. Im trying to write a script that opens many Excel files. I keep getting the prompt This workbook contains links to other data sources. I want to keep this message. Protect Method in Excel Macro. Syntax Note Like. Print. Out Method this method has all Optional parameters too. Work. Sheet. ProtectPassword, Drawing. Objects, Contents, Scenarios, User. Interface. Only, Allow. Formatting. Cells, Allow. Formatting. Columns, Allow. Formatting. Rows, Allow. Inserting. Columns, Allow. Inserting. Rows, Allow. Inserting. Hyperlinks, Allow. Deleting. Columns, Allow. Deleting. Rows, Allow. Sorting, Allow. Filtering, Allow. Using. Pivot. TablesWhere Password Optional is the password you want to pass to protect your sheet. If omitted then Work. Sheet will be locked without a password and while unprotecting it, user will not be asked for any password. Drawing. Objects Optional This is Boolean type input. Microsoft Europe Repair Center Frankfurt International Airport. Default value is TRUE. True allows to protect all shapes in the Sheet. Contents Optional This is Boolean type input. Default Value is TRUE. This is Set to TRUE to protect contents of the Worksheet except those cells or range which are set as Un Locked. Scenarios Optional This is Boolean type input. True is to protect scenarios. The default value is True. User. Interface. Only Optional This is Boolean type input. This is set to True to protect the user interface, but not macros. If this argument is omitted, protection applies both to macros and to the user interface. Allow. Formatting. Cells Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to format any cell on a protected worksheet. Allow. Formatting. Columns Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to format any Column on a protected worksheet. Allow. Formatting. Rows Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to format any Row of the protected worksheet. Allow. Inserting. Columns Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to insert column in the protected worksheet. Allow. Inserting. Rows Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to insert Rows in the protected worksheet. Allow. Inserting. Hyperlinks Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to insert Hyperlinks on the protected worksheet. Allow. Deleting. Columns Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to delete columns from the protected worksheet. Allow. Deleting. Rows Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to delete rows from the protected worksheet. Allow. Sorting Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows user to sort data in the protected worksheet. Note To apply sort every cell in the range must be unlocked. Allow. Filtering Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. This will allow user to change the filter criteria but can not enable or disable the AUTO FILTER option in worksheet. Users are allowed just to change the different filters on an already existing auto filter. Allow. Using. Pivot. Tables Optional This is a Boolean type Input. Default Value is FALSE. If you set it to TRUE then it allows the user to use pivot table reports on the protected worksheet. Example 1 Protect your Sheet with All Default options. Function Protect. SheetDefault. To protect the Sheet. WorksheetsSheet. Protect. Example 2 Protect your Sheet with a password. Function Protect. SheetPassword. To protect the Sheet. Passwords are case sensitive. Hence Vishwa. 12. Hwa. 12. 3. WorksheetsSheet. Protect Password Vishwa. Example 3 Protect your Sheet with all parameters passed in it. Function Protect. SheetAllParameterspassed. Protect Method with all the parameters passed in it. WorksheetsSheet. Protect. Password Vishwa. Drawing. Objects False,. Contents True,. Scenarios True,. User. Interface. Only True,. Allow. Formatting. Cells True,. Allow. Formatting. Columns True,. Allow. Formatting. Rows True,. Allow. Inserting. Columns True,. Allow. Inserting. Rows True,. Allow. Inserting. Hyperlinks True,. Allow. Deleting. Columns True,. Allow. Deleting. Rows True,. Allow. Sorting False,. Allow. Filtering False,. Allow. Using. Pivot. Tables False. Excel Macro to Un. Protect your Protected Sheet. To Unprotect your already protected sheet, you need to use Work. Sheet. unprotect method. To Unprotect a Sheet all you need to pass is the password. No other parameter required to unprotect a sheet. Password is NOT required in all case. You need to pass a correct password only when your Sheet is protected by a giving a password. It is not protected by not providing any password then no need to pass the password as well. Syntax Work. Sheet. Unprotect passwordWhere Password Optional is the password by which your Sheet is protected. If your Sheet is not protected by any password then this parameter can be omitted. Example 1 To Unprotect a Work. Sheet protected by a Passwrord. Function Un. Protect. Sheet. Un. Protect Method with a password passed. WorksheetsSheet. Unprotect Vishwa. Example 2 To Unprotect a Work. Sheet which is not protected by a Password. Function Un. Protect. Sheet. Un. Protect Method without a password passed. WorksheetsSheet. Unprotect. Special Cases I just thought of putting a simple note on all those scenarios which are possible while unprotecting a Sheet. Case 1 What if I passed a Wrong Password. In this case if you will get a 1. Run Time Error. If you capture the Error using On Error Go. To. statement like shown in below code, you will receive the error message like shown in below message box. Function Un. Protect. Sheet. Un. Protect Method with a password passed. On Error Go. To err. WorksheetsSheet. Unprotect vishwa. Msg. Box err. Number err. Description. Case 2 What if I passed a random Password for a sheet which is protected by NO password. In such case this method will unprotect sheet without throwing any error message. Case 3 What if I DO NOT pass any password for a Protected sheet which is protected by a Password. In such case this method will popup a excel built in input box to enter the password to unprotect the Sheet. On passing a valid password sheet will be unprotected. In case of wrong password entered in the input box, same error message will be thrown as shown in the above picture. If you cancel the input box then Sheet will not be unprotected without any Error Message. Now you know to use. Protect and. Unprotect method to protect and unprotect a Work.