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in a protected Excel spreadsheet how do you prohibit a user from adding gridlines?

It's protected except for several cells used for input

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  • Gary E
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    It doesn't look like you can. But you can insert the following

    ActiveWindow.DisplayGridlines = False

    ActiveWindow.GridlineColorIndex = 2

    in the worksheet Activate, Change, and SelectionChange events to make it more difficult to do and impossible to make stick very long.

  • my
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Granted Excel passwords could be surely cracked. despite the fact that, with a worksheet password, VBE password secure practices, coding out the worksheet menu bar, and WorkBook_Open, WorkBook_Close, and WorkSheet_SelectionChange journey handlers you may nevertheless make the workbook secure from all however the main stepped forward 'hacker'. And who, between THEM, is going to have an interest interior the workbook you created in Excel ? no longer very darn many....

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