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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated September 22, 2021)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
When putting together a worksheet for others to use, you may want to limit the cells that the user can access. One esoteric way to add limits is to use the following steps:
Figure 1. The Properties window in the VBA Editor.
That's it; you can no longer move to or select cells outside the range you specified in step 5. The range you enter must be a contiguous range; you cannot enter a non-contiguous group of cell addresses.
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2020-12-31 16:40:51
Phillip
Hello, and Thank you for this. I have found that once I follow the directions perfectly, and then save the workbook, close and reopen the workbook, this setting is gone. That is the user can scroll at will, and the range entered in the ScrollArea is gone, that is it is empty as if never happened. Now while I still have the workbook open, the scrolling is limited and it works just fine. It is not persistent and not saved with the workbook. Any ideas?
2018-10-07 19:13:59
Robin Anson
When I set the scroll area, CTRL-END no longer takes me to the last used cell (even though it is in the scroll area).
CTRL+LEFT or CTRL+DOWN take me to the last cell in the row or column, but the page doesn't scroll to that.
Moving the selected cell with the arrow keys will move the worksheet on the screen, but only if the selected cell is visible. If it isn't visible the worksheet doesn't move as the selection does.
2017-03-21 06:37:17
Willy Vanhaelen
Simply by erasing the range so that ScrollArea is blank.
2017-03-20 10:15:03
So now, how do you reverse this?
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