Macro no longer working once sheet is protected

**switchblade79** · 01-20-2012, 05:00 PM

I found this macro on google - Thanks Dave Peterson if you are reading this! It works beautifully. The macro is programmed to copy data from one sheet (data entry form) and paste into a master database on another sheet, then clear the data on the data entry form. However, when I go to protect the worksheet, the macro still works but the data is no longer being cleared from the data form. The reason I need to protect the data entry form is to limit the user to use only the unlocked cells. Here is the macro as written by Dave

Sub UpdateLogWorksheet()
'http://www.contextures.com/xlForm02.html
'code by Dave Peterson

Dim historyWks As Worksheet
Dim inputWks As Worksheet

Dim nextRow As Long
Dim oCol As Long

Dim myRng As Range
Dim myCopy As String
Dim myCell As Range

'cells to copy from Input sheet - some contain formulas
myCopy = "D5,D7,D9,D11,D13"

Set inputWks = Worksheets("Input")
Set historyWks = Worksheets("PartsData")

With historyWks
nextRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
End With

With inputWks
Set myRng = .Range(myCopy)

If Application.CountA(myRng) <> myRng.Cells.Count Then
MsgBox "Please fill in all the cells!"
Exit Sub
End If
End With

With historyWks
With .Cells(nextRow, "A")
.Value = Now
.NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
End With
.Cells(nextRow, "B").Value = Application.UserName
oCol = 3
For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
historyWks.Cells(nextRow, oCol).Value = myCell.Value
oCol = oCol + 1
Next myCell
End With

'clear input cells that contain constants
With inputWks
On Error Resume Next
With .Range(myCopy).Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
.ClearContents
Application.Goto .Cells(1) ', Scroll:=True
End With
On Error GoTo 0
End With

End Sub

**TMS** · 01-20-2012, 05:22 PM

Hello switchblade79, and welcome to the forum. Unfortunately ...

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To be a little more helpful ... you could upnprotect the form before you clear it and reprotect it afterwards.

And ...

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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