Protecting sheet disables Grouping buttons

[Guest]

I am delivering a worksheet to a client, and have protected it. As well as
stopping people changing the data, though, it also stops them using the
Grouping buttons. How can I enable grouping on a protected sheet?

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you already have the outline 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
.EnableAutoFilter = True
End With
End Sub

(I wasn't sure what caused your outlining--data|Group or Data|subtotals).)

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