Enable Group/Ungroup in protected sheet

Anonymous
2013-01-02T12:41:00+00:00

Dear solver,

 I have an excel sheet which is renamed as "Emp Summary" which is protected without password.

 In this protected sheet, I want to enable the Group/Ungroup option to show/hide row no. 34 to 42.

 How to do that? Will macro must be require? If yes, then please write the code for me. I would appreciate if this could be done withouth a macro, 

 even by other trick/option.

 Also, if I send the same file to another user, will he/she also requires to enable macro at his/her end?

 Please help.

 Many thanks.

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HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-01-02T12:56:30+00:00

You need VBA for this, and the end user will need to allow macros for this to work.

Press Alt+F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor.

Double-click ThisWorkbook, under Microsoft Excel Objects in the project explorer on the left hand side.

Copy the following code into the module that appears:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()

    With Worksheets("Emp Summary")

        .EnableOutlining = True

        .Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True

    End With

End Sub

This code will be executed automatically each time the workbook is opened.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-08-01T12:33:44+00:00

    I get an error: Runtime error "9"

    Subscript out of range

    Any ideas?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-20T14:08:28+00:00

    The error "subscript out of range" probably means that there is no worksheet named Emp Summary in the workbook.

    Yeah, thanks, but I figured that out on my own.  :)  What it turned out to be is "Worksheets" was wrong.  This needs to change based on the name in your workbook.  When I replaced it with "Sheets", the error went away.

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  3. HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-07-20T05:15:38+00:00

    The error "subscript out of range" probably means that there is no worksheet named Emp Summary in the workbook.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-20T02:52:06+00:00

    When I run this, I get a "Run Time Error '9'; subscript out of range.  I have Excel 2013.  thoughts ?

    thanks,

    Suzanne

    You need VBA for this, and the end user will need to allow macros for this to work.

    Press Alt+F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor.

    Double-click ThisWorkbook, under Microsoft Excel Objects in the project explorer on the left hand side.

    Copy the following code into the module that appears:

    Private Sub Workbook_Open()

        With Worksheets("Emp Summary")

            .EnableOutlining = True

            .Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True

        End With

    End Sub

    This code will be executed automatically each time the workbook is opened.

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