Highlighting locked or unlocked rows, Searching cells

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I want to highlight locked or unlocked cells in the whole sheet (that has
been modified, i.e. the print area)

Union() comes to mind.

If there any way of getting the whole contents of the worksheet besides
using printarea? I want to loop using For and Cell(x,y), (is there a better
way?) without going through the whole sheet.

How do I search, collect the cells that are locked (or unlocked) and
eventually, later, add them to union() ? Union itself won't take a unioned
object as an argument, so I can't add them one at a time.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Are you using Format|Conditional Formatting for anything?

If no, then how about using it to show the locked/unlocked cells?

Select your range (ctrl-A for all the cells).
Format|Conditional formatting
formula is: =CELL("protect",A1)

(Use the activecell's address instead of A1.)

Give it a nice pattern.