After protecting excel unable to group & ungroup few colums

[Guest]

Unable to group & ungroup once excel is protected.
1. Few columns are selected & grouped.
2. Few cells are selected & locked
3. Sheet is protected.
4. Now when I try to ungroup the columns it displays a mesage that since the
sheet is protected it can't be ungrouped
Suggestion is to allow a checkbox while protecting the excel where I can
allow users to use group- ungroup feature

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[Dave Peterson]

If you already have the Grouping applied, you can protect the worksheet in code
(auto_open/workbook_open??).

Option Explicit
Sub auto_open()
With Worksheets("sheet1")
.Protect Password:="hi", userinterfaceonly:=True
.EnableOutlining = True
End With
End Sub

It needs to be reset each time you open the workbook. (excel doesn't remember
it after closing the workbook.)

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm