This means that the worksheet in the first position Main never moves. These can be very powerful decision-making tools if you know how to use them. Visit or pages to learn more or join my. Once data is entered in an individuals worksheet I then need to get back to the main menu. Of course Excel has no such capability, as I would have remembered if I wasn't working in the morning before coffee. After all, Quattro Pro only had it twenty years ago.
I found another alternative solution. Chandoo, thanks for sharing this. The problem is that the. Excel hides Sheeet2 and its tab. How Protected Is Your Worksheet? Chandoo, we need your help!!! Pls help me on this. I'd like to add my commendations for this fantastic web site! Speaking of things you can or can't do with an Excel worksheet tab; the other day I unconsciously reached for an affordance that wasn't there.
There are multiple tabs that are all linked to the main menu by hyperlink. And, we would appreciate if you use a more acceptable language to share your enthusiasm. That being said, there are several things you can do to get the results you want. Thus they can navigate very quickly between the main and secondary worksheets just by clicking the hyperlinks. Find out Protect Sheet command in Ribbon without Classic Menu for Office There are also two methods to protect sheet to get command button in Ribbon: Method A: Protect Sheet button in Review tab Go to the Changes group under Review tab, you will find out the Protect Sheet button as soon as possible. Thanks for your help, cgreen You can make all the tabs hidden except for the master Protect the workbook Then when the user clicks the button or whatever you have on the master it will show a userform the userform will ask for a password and if correct it will unhide the specific sheet.
Each worksheet is hyperlinked from the main worksheet, and each non-main worksheet has a hyperlink back to the main worksheet. I would be most grateful if you or someone can help. Also, it might be possible that the excel workbook has some macros which might be causing this behavior. In fact, Excel dims the Unhide command if the only sheets hidden are very hidden sheets. If they able to unprotect the sheet then they would be able to alter the formulas.
When you do, Excel applies the property and then selects the first sheet, Sheet1, which is a bit distracting. I in no way am harping on the very talented Excel developers and telling you they did an inadequate job. Hello, I need to lock a worksheet tab Main menu in place so that it is always visible. Sheets 1 End If sh. In that case, turn off the macros and open the workbook again and you might be able to see all tabs. I am having problem with the code, but I do not give up easy. I have not personally come across anything that allows tabs to be frozen, but then, like in most things, I will no doubt be proven wrong in the forum.
This is why I steer away from macros when I can! Open the worksheet you want to protect from viewing, right click the sheet tab and select Hide from the context menu to hide the worksheet. It does work on those versions but you have to make sure its a macro-enabled type of file. Second option - right click in the arrows to the left of the tab names and a list of the first 15 tabs opens up. It will help a common man like me. The average user won't even know the sheet exists, let alone know how to unhide it. For example, if you want your users to be able to format cells, you would want to check the Format Cells checkbox. Dan Hi Chadoo, I am working on an Excel 2013.
For later versions of Excel, this will promote the following dialog box: But you can still delete this worksheet — even if it has been password protected. And yYou can get access the Protect Sheet command in the old Toolbars according to the following screenshot: Figure 2: Protect Sheet in Microsoft Excel 2010's Toolbar Please click to know more information and free download. If you are using Microsoft Excel 2007 and have installed Classic Menu for Office on your computer, you will easily find out the Additional Toolbar at far right of Toolbars under Menus. I think this may still be confusing, we will see. It asks me for a password, I put one in, but aftyer I send it or slide it over to a shared folder on the company server other people can open it on their computer and chagne it to 'visible' without being asked for a password. That behavior is normal, so don't let it bother you.
So check out the promotional page by clicking the button below to see if this add-in can ease your pain of dealing with forgotten worksheet passwords. You want the top of the page heading to be stuck onto one particular position, correct? Another option is to remember that you can right-click on the worksheet tab controls at the left of the tabs at the bottom of the Excel window. The result is a very stealthy sheet, but it's still vulnerable to savvy users who know the technique. Familiar way to protect sheet if you have Classic Menu for Office Classic Menu for Office inserts old menus and toolbars of Microsoft Excel 2003 into Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 Ribbon, and makes Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 look like Excel 2003. Does this solve your problem? Under Menus tab you can get familiar toolbarhave exactly the same old toolbars as in your Excel 2003. I like the idea of hiding the tab, with a 'Button' for the password to view the tab and the offices with their own password can make changes on the unlocked cells.
Tom, I have to keep the spreadsheets as user friendly as possible. Figure 3: Protect Sheet button in Additional Toolbars Please click to know more information and free download. Mainly because there are just so many option combinations to choose from! Image: iStockphoto You can hide an sheet, but users can unhide it just as quickly. Thanks Stormseed, I have a main menu page which contains the names of 90 junior athletes. By sharing this post on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ you are not only providing others with great information, you are creating exposure for The Spreadsheet Guru website. I don't think this way works in 2007. The problem with this is that I have other formulas on their tab that I do not want them to tamper with, so I have those cells locked.
I want worksheet 1 which I have named main menu to remain visible lock it in place if possible so I can click on it any time that I want. Having a blank Module will allow you to create and save a password without bringing up the message of a Macro when you open the spreadsheet. That's a negative 1, which denotes the constant's value. It always moves the worksheets in positions 2 through however many sheets you have so that the desired worksheet is in the second position. Thank you so much for reading and I hope I can continue to provide you with great content in the future! Chandoo, please help, or at least confirm what we suspect so we can move on and deal with this problem in another way. If you're interested, you can learn more about how Excel's password security is setup by checking out a very interesting at least I thought it was interesting article I wrote a while back entitled.