Hi Steve,
You may want to also check with the folks in the Microsoft Office Groove discussion group on this through the links below. Please
include when posting there the version of Excel you'll be using. Generally if you're using worksheet protection from editing rather
than Rights Management protection it doesn't sound from your description as if there would be an issue.
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I have an Excel worksheet that has conditional formatting, data validation, and
worksheet protection. If I share this Excel worksheet in a Groove
collaborative workspace, with these features be preserved?
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Steve at SIU-MED>>
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Please let us know if this has helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
LINKS
A. MS Office Groove news/discussion group via newsreader software
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.groove
or
MS Office Groove new/discussion group via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.groove
B. MS Office Accounting Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com