I'm not sure about the formatting issue, but I would recommend putting all your formulas on a separate sheet in the same workbook and have cells in your active sheet reference the "Formulas" sheet. Leave your "Active" sheet unprotected, and protect the "Formulas" sheet; you can even hide the formulas sheet to extra protection.
Sincerely, Andrew Robertson derma e(r) Natural Bodycare Export Manager Ph. 805-582-2710 xt. 244 Fx. 805-582-2730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dermae.net -----Original Message----- From: John and Karen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:58 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] first Time! Hi, this is my first time, so if I am in the wrong area, or whate-ever, please foregive me and lead me in the right direction. First of all, I don't have a spell checker and I can't spell worth of beans. What I wanted to know in Calc is, I have some protected cells and some unprotected cells, and I protected the sheet. The cells that I am protecting have formulas in them. When I tried to sort, I got a meassage that protected cells could not be sorted. Therefore I had to highlight all of the data to be sorted and then sort. Is there a way to tell the calc program not to try to sort protected cells, but to sort all other cells? Maybe in some complictated spreadsheets this would not be what one wants, but I think in most cases, there should not be any problem with this opperation. am I wront? Is there a way to do this now, or does this need to be programed into Calc? Also, is there a way to not sort formatting? I have every other line with a light gray background. When I sorted, this got all mest up. Also when you cut and past data, it passes the formatting on as well. I think there sould be a way of protecting formatting without protecting data. Has anybody else have these concerns? Thank You. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
