How to enable auto filter for protected sheet in Excel

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11 responses to “How to enable auto filter for protected sheet in Excel”

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   Jan

   May 8, 2013

   You just describe the function that’s allready there, easy to find and that should do the job. The question was how to make autofilter work in a protected worksheet because the mentioned function that should do it does’nt.

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   Jan

   May 9, 2013

   You don’t add something new because you give me the normal procedure which everyone can find in help, and tutorials. But that does’nt work. You must come with something better.

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   Ravi Shankar

   May 9, 2013

   Thanks Jan for the feedback. Will try to add better tutorials in future.

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   Sam

   September 17, 2014

   Thank you for providing this. Your post was very helpful.

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   Jaana

   December 5, 2014

   This doesn’t work for me in Excel 2010. I have tried to allow users to sort data in my protected spreadsheet by ticking the box, but when they open the file the sort option is not allowed.

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   Cuong Danh

   November 30, 2015

   I have the same trouble with Jaana, but with Excel 2007. I have checked the box when putting in password to protect worksheet, auto-filter and group/ungroup and other functions worked well immediately after the worksheet is protected. However, the auto-filter was disabled (blocked) after the file closed and reopened. (Please be noted that my workbook have been set with a sub code of VBA to enable group/ungroup function whilst the sheets are protected). Could someone helps me out?

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7. Filtering problem

   February 18, 2016

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   Mary

   July 9, 2016

   I am also having the same issue. Have checked the box and I still cannot sort. Everything locks up and I get a message telling me I am trying to use auto filters on a protected sheet and I can’t do that, and that I must unprotect the sheet to use auto filters.

   Very frustrating!

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9. 

   Avsharan Kaur

   September 9, 2016

   Thanks the information was very useful and handy.

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10. 

    Jasmine

    March 3, 2021

    More than likely, the reason why it will not allow the protected worksheet to sort is because the cells are locked. To unlock cells, you will have to go to Format Cells->Protection and uncheck the “Locked” box. Unfortunately, doing this will also allow users to edit the cells even when the worksheet is protected. Microsoft should update the software to allow sorting of locked cells, but no such update has been made to date as far as I know.

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    Jack

    October 25, 2021

    Autofilter function should be activated before protecting the sheet and the check on Autofilter must be set when protecting, then the user can use the autofilter function

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