Lock/Unlock Cells in Excel Depending on Selection in Another Cell

LordFordham

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Hi,

I've been attempting to lock/unlock a range of cells within a spreadsheet depending on the value selected in another cell. I have tried many different suggestions, and have made sure that the sheet is unprotected, but am coming a bit unstuck. Any help would be much appreciated.

The closest I have come to being able to achieve this was for the one row of the S/S, but this did not then replicate down all fields. Now frustratingly I can't even find the VBA code I'd entered to make that happen so unfortunately am starting from a blank!

The scenario that I have is that Column P contains a drop-down selection field with multiple options (which is applied to 1000 rows at the moment). I would like to lock down columns 'W:AD' on each row unless the option of either "Client" or "Fraud" is selected from the drop-down in cell P for that row. E.G. if Cell P5 is chosen "Client" then it would unlock W5:AD5. For any other selection from the drop-down list the chosen the fields W:AD would remain locked down (and ideally greyed out!).

Is there anyone who might be able to lend a hand and give me some direction on this please?

Many thanks in advance.
 

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