Help with locking and unlocking and drawing

timspin

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Hi all

I have to lock some cells in a work sheet. When i have done this, and selected protect work sheet (allow users to access unlocked cells) the drawing functions (including insert picture, shapes etc) are all greyed out and can not be accessed. Even in the unlocked cells.

Trouble is I need to access these functions.

Any ideas?

Cheers
T
 

Excel Facts

Lock one reference in a formula
Need 1 part of a formula to always point to the same range? use $ signs: $V$2:$Z$99 will always point to V2:Z99, even after copying
try when protecting the sheets unticking the Objects box in the protection screen

this should sort it

Stu
 
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