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
    2014-09-22T16:09:20+00:00

    I tried running your code (copied straight from your reply, without changing anything). I was able to insert, edit and delete objects such as pictures, shapes and controls. So the code works OK.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-23T09:43:32+00:00

    Thanks, this is invaluable!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-04T00:14:38+00:00

    HansV, 

    When I run this code it works well but as soon as I close the workbook and reopen it I lose the ability to click on the grouping [+] button and expand, in fact I get the error that the sheet is protected.  The rest of the sheet is still protected though.  Any thoughts?

    Thanks in advance for your help!!

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  4. HansV 462.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-11-04T06:30:33+00:00

    Have you created a Worksheet_Open event procedure in the ThisWorkbook module, as suggested earlier in this thread? For example, if you want to apply it to sheets Sheet1 and Sheet2:

    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

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