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- Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Protecting end-points of a named range
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.125733.19253@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <RON.92Aug19115827@bert.cs.byu.edu>
- Distribution: comp.apps.spreadsheets
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:57:33 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- ron@bert.cs.byu.edu (Ron Snyder) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I can think of two options.
- 1) place extra, blank rows (or rows with labels such as \-) in the range
- at the endpoints. This won't work if the calling formulas cannot deal
- with blanks, but works for things like @sum. You could also use some
- predetermined dummy values that the calling cell(s) would know to
- factor out of their formulas, like all zeros or all ones.
- 2) in WYSIWYG mode, you *can* "sort-of" hide a row, by changing its height
- to a ridiculously low number.
-
- -JTT
-
-