I have macro enabled workbook. Both Workbook and sheets are password protected.
Basically, I have 2 sheets. First "crater" which has a drop down list and buttons.
Second, "Uno" which has buttons again( Its a hidden sheet)
Button 1 on crater page task is to just copy the "Uno" sheet and create a new sheet. All tasks are working fine.
But my problem is, when I create a child sheet and save and close the workbook.
Next time, As soon as I open workbook I get an "error '1004'. You cannot use the command on protected sheet. You must first unprotect sheet" .
I would like to know, Where can I use the code to unprotect sheet in this case?
I am confused, please help
Use the command Worksheet("Your_Sheet_Name").Unprotect if you have a password you need to add it as well Worksheet("Your_Sheet_Name").Unprotect(Password)
You can have it in the Workbook Open and it will unlock the worksheet. However, then all the users can modify this worksheet as well.
Related
Example:
A B
1 =vlookup(XX)
2
3
in cell A1 there is a Vlookup formula, Is it possible to enable user entry in this cell and override the formula then later restore the formula automatically when sheet is open again?
Even through VBA
Short, boring answer: nope.
A cell only ever has a keyed-in value, or a calculated formula. Can't have both.
Longer answer: maybe.
Shift everything 1 row down, and use row 1 to store your "original" formula - then hide that row (and pray the user isn't going to mess with it).
When the sheet is opened again sounds like you're confusing "workbook" and "worksheet" - you need to handle Workbook_Open if you want to run code when a workbook opens. Workbooks contain worksheets - it's the workbook that opens, not the sheets (sheets activate, but I doubt you would want to put that logic in there).
So, in the handler for Workbook_Open, write code that takes the formula in the hidden row and overwrites whatever is under it.
Another solution can be to hard-code the formula in the VBA code.
One possibility would be to store your Workbook as a template. Normally when a user opens the workbook by double-clicking, it will open whole new workbook based on the template, and they can modify it to their heart's content, save it, mail it to Grandma, etc.
The next person who comes along will double-click the template file and get the formula again, just as you designed it.
Short answer: Kind of, sort of
Long answer:
Save your workbook as a template. Every time someone will use it you'll see the orignal with formula, then if someone write over the formula, when using save your original will be kept intact.
What You need to do is:
press Alt + F11
select ThisWorkbook and paste this code:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A11").Value = "asdf"
End Sub
Every time the workbook is opened, this script will run.
Instead of "Sheet1" you can write the name of the sheet you want to apply the script.
Inside the Range, You can define the cells you want to modify, You can use even multiple cells. Check this for more information about this.
After Value You can write what You want to be written inside the cell. You can write "=vlookup(XX)" and it will work.
I have a worksheet with a table in, that I have protected via a password I have defined.
I also have some VBA code running under the Worksheet_SelectionChange event which checks if the current cell is within the table, if yes it unprotects the sheet and if no it reprotects the sheet with my predfined password.
I am aware though that when inside the table (hence unprotected) the user could enter a new password for the sheet protection which will cause an error to the running of the macro.
Does anybody know if it is possible and if so how to capture the password a user enters into the sheet, that I could store into a VBA variable?
My thinking is that I could then run something further to unprotect instantly with that password and then reprotect withmy predifined one?
Thanks
I have a dialog box with a couple of buttons that launch macros to activate and change to different sheets.
The problem I am having is after I click the button, the macro activates the new sheet and I see it. But when I go to delete data, add data or try to delete a row "Nothing happens" the data on the screen is still there. If I go back to the previous sheet, the cells and rows that I had intended to delete were deleted in that sheet. It is very wierd and never seen anything like that. It appears that my macro code is note doing enough to actually change to the new sheet. I do not have this problem if I click a different sheet tab to change to it. Or if I click the dialog button to go to the new sheet and quickly do a ctrl-pgDown and Ctrl-PgUp to change from another tab and back that seems to fix the problem.
This is the code in my macro I am using to try to change to the desired tab.
Private Sub Report1Button_Click()
On Error GoTo Handler
Sheets("Report1").Activate
If StayOpenBox.Value = False Then
Unload MainMenu
End If
Exit Sub
Handler:
MsgBox "Sheet 'Report1' not found or renamed"
End Sub
Thanks for any help or suggestions
UPDATE:
Here is code that I use to call the dialog box. I have a shape on the other sheet that is assigned to this macro to open dialog box
Sub ShowMainMenu()
With UserForm1
.Show
End With
End Sub
Also there is no further code to make edits to the new sheet. My Button click simply switches to the other sheet and when I attempt to make edits manually, they are actually done on the previous sheet which is not the one I am currently looking at. So anything I do, Bold text, delete text, delete row, etc, is not done on the current sheet I am looking at, but when I return to the previous sheet the changes where made there. Im on Excel 2013, I have reproduced this problem in 2 separate files, but I will try on a different computer and older version of excel. Screenshot of my situation is below.
UPDATE 2:
I ran this xlsm file on a 2nd computer with Xls 2007 and was not having the problem. So I ran the macro on a 3rd computer that also has Excel 2013 and it is experiencing the same problem. So it is not computer specific and seems to be a problem in XLS 2013 but not in XLS 2007. I will try to find a computer with Excel 2010 to test as well, but something about this code is causing a problem in 2013 but not in older versions of excel.
When you run VBA code, it will default to using the ActiveSheet if you don't define the Sheet. When you have objects/methods that you want performed on a specific sheet, you should always specify! You can do that one of two ways:
Sheets("Report1").[Object].[Method]
'or
Sheets("Report1").[Method]
or you can pass the Sheet name to a variable and use that for shorter code
Dim Report1 As Worksheet
Set Report1 = Sheets("Report1")
Report1.[Object].[Method]
'or
Report1.[Method]
Try changing the sequence of lines in your code. I had a similar situation and it turned out that I inserted the "delete sheet" code in between the commands that were copying data from sheet1 to sheet2. When I put the deletion lines (commands) after I finished copying sheets everything started to work correctly. Many commands activate one sheet while performing and this immediately disactivates another sheet. So if you used "ActiveSheet" sommand somewhere it may be incorrectly understood - the command may be executed not on the sheet you meant.
Just use the full address for the range you are trying to manipulate, for example instead of:
Sheets("mySheet").Activate
Range("A1:B10").Cut
Sheets("myOtherSheet").Activate
Range("A1:B10").Paste
use:
Sheets("mySheet").Range("A1:A10").Cut Destination:=Sheets("myOtherSheet").Range("A1:B10")
I just had the same problem, also with Excel 2013. So even if the thread is over 9 month inactive, I want to share my solution in case somebody gets here through a Google search.
The solution was really simple. Call the userform with:
UserForm1.show vbModeless
Is there a way to run different macros on several worksheets but, always show sheet1 when the macros are running?
My sheet1 is a cover sheet (a kind of title page) with a command button. Pressing the command button runs macros on a further 5 sheets. Each sub starts by moving to the correct sheet ...
e.g.
Sheets("CDS Data").Select
... but this sheet is shown whilst the macro is running, can I stop this being shown and just show the sheet1 until all macros are finished?
Thanks
Actually ... I have found a way. By starting my macros with;
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
This seems to work.
Say I had two Excel sheets (ONE.xlsx & TWO.xlsx). Would it be possible to have a certain cell in ONE to be changed at the same time as a certain cell in TWO?
For example:
B2 in ONE is equal to "Tuesday". Is there a way to make D10 in TWO also equal to "Tuesday" without having to go into TWO and manually changing it.
The more I think about this problem the more I think that it's not likley to work. The only way I can think of it working is by connecting them both up to the same database somehow. Thought I'd try you guys before I give up try something else.
Thanks in advance!
I've found a solution that works very well.
Open both the workbooks.
In the source workbook, copy the cell(s) that you wish to link.
In the destination workbook, right click and select "Paste Link".
The cells in the destination workbook should now be linked so that when changes are made to the source workbook the changes are also made in the destination workbook.
Sure, open both workbooks.
put = in workbook 2 minimize and find the sheet/cell in workbook one
select it.
close workbook 2 and save.
change the value in workbook 1
open workbook to (enable the security to look at workbook 1)
see the updated value.