How to protect multiple worksheets at once in Excel?

Supposing you have a workbook which contains multiple worksheets, and now you need to protect all of the worksheets or some specific worksheets, normally in Excel, you only can protect the sheet one by one with the Protect Sheet function, but this method is tedious and time-consuming if there are numerous sheets need to be protected. How do you protect multiple sheets at once in Excel quickly and easily?

Protect all sheets at once with VBA code

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Protect all sheets at once with VBA code

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With the following VBA code, you can protect all the sheets of the active workbook at once with the same password, do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: Protect all worksheets in a workbook at once:

Sub protect_all_sheets()
top: 
pass = InputBox("password?") 
repass = InputBox("Verify Password") 
If Not (pass = repass) Then 
MsgBox "you made a boo boo" 
Goto top 
End If 
For i = 1 To Worksheets.Count 
If Worksheets(i).ProtectContents = True Then Goto oops 
Next 
For Each s In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets 
s.Protect Password:=pass 
Next 
Exit Sub 
oops: MsgBox "I think you have some sheets that are already protected. Please unprotect all sheets then running this Macro." 
End Sub

3. Then press F5 key to run the code, and input the password for the protected sheets in the prompt box, see screenshot:

4. Click OK, and then input the password again to confirm the password.

5. Then click OK, and all the sheets have been protected with the same password.

Protect multiple sheets at once with Kutools for Excel

Sometimes, you don't want to protect all the sheets in your workbook, and only want to protect some specific sheets, in this situation, the above code will not work. But with Kutools for Excel’s Protect Worksheet utility, you can protect both all sheets and specific sheets quickly and easily.

After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as following steps:

1. Click Enterprise > Protect Worksheet, see screenshot:

2. In the Protect Worksheet dialog box, select the sheets that you want to be protected. (By default, all the worksheets within the current workbook are checked.)See screenshot:

3. And click OK, and then type and confirm the password in the Protect Worksheet dialog box. See screenshot:

4. Then click OK, the selected worksheets have been protected.

Click Protect Worksheet to know more about this feature.

Unprotect multiple sheets at once with kutools for Excel

How could you unprotect multiple protected worksheets in a workbook at the same time? Of course, Kutools for Excel also provides the Unprotect Worksheet utility for you to unprotect them at once.

Please do with following steps:

1. Open your workbook which contains the protected worksheets.

2. Then click Enterprise > Unprotect Worksheet, see screenshot:

3. In the Unprotect Worksheet dialog box, the protected sheets are list into the list box, then click Ok button, see screenshot:

4. And then a Unprotect Worksheet dialog box pops out to remind you enter the password that you have created to protect the worksheets, see screenshot:

5. After typing the password, click Ok, all the checked worksheets in the list box have been unprotected.

Note: The worksheets must have the same password.

To know more about this Unprotect Worksheet feature.

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