advice activex button vs form button on protected sheet

hi,

thank you for your response. I have tried to avoid using controls, but now it seems I have no choice.
I will open a new thread, because yesterday I tried using Forms Controls and I stumbled upon another problem, I'm using Excel 2010 and I can't disable the button with the .disable property. Is it a general problem (an excel bug yet to be solved) ? Has anyone found a way around it, because I didn't find one...

Thank you again for your help.

Edit: please delete one of these responses, my browser gives me headaches sometimes :D