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Protecting cells with a particular 'style'

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    Question Protecting cells with a particular 'style'

    Hello all,

    I was wondering if there was a way to ONLY protect cells with a particular 'style', such as "Background", "Section", and "Title" and to leave the remaining cells unprotected.

    Thanks,
    Mark

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    Re: Protecting cells with a particular 'style'

    Format the style to include Protection = Locked, format the other styles as unlocked, and protect the worksheet.
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    Re: Protecting cells with a particular 'style'

    Well, I believe I've found a viable solution. That is, I went to Tools -> Protection -> Allow Users to Edit Ranges and chose the ranges I wanted to be editable.

    If you have another solution, please post!

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    Re: Protecting cells with a particular 'style'

    That worked beautifully too, thanks!

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    Re: Protecting cells with a particular 'style'

    Doing it by style as in your original approach is superior, IMO.

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