Using VB to protect and unprotect a sheet

Pauljj

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For reasons that remain unclear some code I used to unprotect a sheet has stopped working

I know it used to work before, oddly enough I can unprotect it in the manual way, by going to Review and Unprotect sheet, so I know there is nothing wrong with the password

The code I have used is

Code:
s1.UnProtect Password = 0123

s1 being the name assigned to the current sheet.

I had also tried, just to make sure s1 was correctly assigned

Code:
ActiveSheet.UnProtect Password = 0123

But this doesn't work either

I don't get any error when I step through it

Any ideas please ?

Thanks
 
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The password argument is a string and you pass a number, try:
Code:
s1.UnProtect Password = "0123"
Reason why your code fails: 0123 converts to the number 123 and is subsequently passed as the string "123", which of course is different from the password "0123"
 
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The password argument is a string and you pass a number, try:
Code:
s1.UnProtect Password = "0123"
Reason why your code fails: 0123 converts to the number 123 and is subsequently passed as the string "123", which of course is different from the password "0123"

I tried that but it didn't make any difference?
 
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Apologies, the correct syntax is:
Code:
s1.UnProtect Password:="0123"
(note the : )
 
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