control advancing to cells

J

Junior

My spreadsheet has protected and unprotected cells
i thought that when the sheet is protected -
it would advance to the next unprotected cell when return is pressed
but not so on this one-
how can i program which cell it will advance to next?
 
G

George Clark

It's certainly possible to control where the cursor goes each time, but it
can get a bit complicated, depending on the setup in the worksheet. Perhaps
simply preventing the cursor from going to protected cells would suffice.

To do that, in the Workbook_Open event you could put something like:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Worksheets("Sheet1").EnableSelection = xlUnlockedCells
End Sub

Replace "Sheet1", of course, with whatever the name of the worksheet is. You
can do the same for multiple sheets if necessary.

As long as the sheet is protected, the cursor can only go to cells that are
marked as "unlocked."

As with any programming solution, the user must enable macros when they open
the workbook for this to work. Unfortunately, even though you can set the
Worksheet.EnableSelection property in the VBE, it doesn't "stick", so must
be set each time the workbook is opened.

George

My spreadsheet has protected and unprotected cells
i thought that when the sheet is protected -
it would advance to the next unprotected cell when return is pressed
but not so on this one-
how can i program which cell it will advance to next?
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Junior

George- please excuse my dumbness- i don't usually do more than basics in
Excel - mostly use Access and understand the sub you provided
but don't know how to put the sub in the Open event
actually don't even know where to find the open event to place the code?
help please
 
G

Gord Dibben

Junior

Hitting the TAB key will move you from unlocked cell to next unlocked cell in
a left to right, top to bottom order.

DO NOT use the <ENTER> key.

You can also control the movement with a Named Range and no sheet protection.

Assuming your range of cells to be A1, B2, C3, F4, A2, F1 for example.

Select the Second cell(B2) you want in the range then CRTL + click your way
through the range in the order you wish, ending with the First cell(A1). Name
this range under Insert>Name>Define>OK.

Now click on NameBox(top left corner above row 1 and col A), select the range
name to highlight the range. With these cells selected, you can input data
and Tab or Enter your way through the range in the order you selected.

Note: there is a limit of about 25 - 30 cells to a range using this method due
to a 255 character limit in a named range. Longer sheet names will reduce the
number of cells considerably.

If more needed, you can enter them manually in the "refers to" box.

From Debra Dalgleish.....
The limit is 255 characters in the Name definition. For example, I can
define a range of 46 non-contiguous cells, with the following string:

=$B$2,$D$2,$F$2,$H$2,$J$2,$B$4,$D$4,$F$4,$H$4,$J$4,$B$6,$D$6,$F$6,$H$6,
$J$6,$B$8,$D$8,$F$8,$H$8,$J$8,$B$10,$D$10,$F$10,$H$10,$J$10,$B$12,$D$12,
$F$12,$H$12,$J$12,$B$14,$D$14,$F$14,$H$14,$J$14,$B$16,$D$16,$F$16,$H$16,
$J$16,$B$18,$D$18,$F$18,$H$18,$J$18,$L$3
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Gord Dibben Excel MVP
 
G

George Clark

On the Tools menu, go to Macro, then select Visual Basic Editor (VBE) on the
submenu. Once in the VBE, on the left you should see a list of the sheets in
the workbook, and at the bottom of that list will be "ThisWorkbook".
Double-click on that to open the Workbook code window. At the top of the
code window there is a drop-down that probably has "General" selected;
select "Workbook" on that drop-down.

You should now have the Workbook_Open event ready for your to enter your
code. Do that, then return to "regular" Excel and Save the workbook.

George

George- please excuse my dumbness- i don't usually do more than basics in
Excel - mostly use Access and understand the sub you provided
but don't know how to put the sub in the Open event
actually don't even know where to find the open event to place the code?
help please
Click to expand...

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