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. HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-09-17T16:02:09+00:00

    OK, thanks. Change the code like this:

    Private Sub Workbook_Open()

        Dim wsh As Variant

        For Each wsh In Worksheets(Array("sheet1", "sheet2"))

            wsh.EnableOutlining = True

            wsh.Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True

        Next wsh

    End Sub

    You can change the sheet names, and add more if you want.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-17T15:40:52+00:00

    What exactly do you mean? Can you provide more detailed information?

    sorry...

    I want to protect 2 sheets, e.g. "sheet1" and "sheet2" - but my users have to be able to group/ungroup

    You replied earlier that I can use below macro - how do I do the same with "sheet2?:

    Private Sub Workbook_Open()

        With Worksheets("sheet1")

            .EnableOutlining = True

            .Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True

        End With

    End Sub

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  3. HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-09-17T15:27:39+00:00

    What exactly do you mean? Can you provide more detailed information?

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-09-17T15:02:57+00:00

    What if I want to protect more than one sheet - how do I seperate the sheets?

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