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Article #111Protecting end-points of a named range
From: Ron Snyder
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:58
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:58
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SOFTWARE: Quattro Pro 3.01 I have some budget sheets that are used by several accountants in my department. The budget have many(!) named ranges that are accessed by other worksheets. Today one of the area heads called me because a summary worksheet that refers to these named ranges is giving the wrong answers (like ERR). It didn't take long to figure out that between he and his accountants, some of the endpoints of the named ranges had been inadvertently deleted while they were 'cleaning' up the budget worksheet. Protecting those rows doesn't work, because sometimes those ranges really _do_ need to be deleted, and I don't want them calling me everytime they want to delete lines in the worksheet. (They don't want that, either. :)) Ideally, Borland would have a "Hide Row" option that is similar to the "Hide Column" option, so that I could hide the top and bottom of the named ranges, but I am 99% sure that this handy little gadget is a figment of my wishes. If you have had this problem, how did you overcome it? (Yeah, I know the best answer is to educate my users, but I feel like this problem falls into the realm of "dummy-proofing".) Thanks in advance for any help you can give me! -- Ron Snyder <ron@bert.cs.byu.edu> <snyderrj@coned1.byu.edu> ****************************************************************
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Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: ron@bert.cs.byu.edu (Ron Snyder) Subject: Protecting end-points of a named range Organization: BYU Computer Science Distribution: comp.apps.spreadsheets Date: 19 Aug 92 11:58:27 Message-ID: <RON.92Aug19115827@bert.cs.byu.edu> Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: bert.cs.byu.edu Lines: 30