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Excel Vba Formula Protection With User Interface Restriction

skill · ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkillLicence not declaredAudited 14 Oct 2026 · source 04e912cff54b

★ 602pushed 157 days agoversion 0.1.0
✓SAFEGrade B · 89/100 · 14 Oct 2026 · 04e912c
602repo stars · whole ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill
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Is it safe? Yes — SAFE, grade B (89/100). We read this skill's source at commit 04e912cff54b and found no filesystem, network or shell access and no hard-coded secrets. What it does: Generates VBA code to protect only formula cells on the active sheet while allowing VBA execution and user edits on non-formula cells, with optional user notifications.

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Audit 0.4.1 · source read 14 Oct 2026

Trust score89/100✓SAFE B
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SAFE means nothing in the source contradicts what the skill says it does. Grade B is shared by 16,667 of 17,602 audited skills.

What the source does

  • FilesystemNone observedNo reads or writes in the source
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L0 ProvenanceRepo owner, licence, archive status, activityPASS0
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L2 InstructionsPrompt injection, authority framing, hidden directivesPASS0
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Its description: Generates VBA code to protect only formula cells on the active sheet while allowing VBA execution and user edits on non-formula cells, with optional user notifications.

---
id: "16ca83f5-0dee-40eb-bf18-ab6fb39baf8d"
name: "Excel VBA Formula Protection with User Interface Restriction"
description: "Generates VBA code to protect only formula cells on the active sheet while allowing VBA execution and user edits on non-formula cells, with optional user notifications."
version: "0.1.0"
tags:
  - "Excel"
  - "VBA"
  - "Protection"
  - "Formulas"
  - "Macros"
triggers:
  - "protect formulas but allow vba"
  - "lock only formula cells"
  - "vba userinterfaceonly"
  - "excel vba protect sheet allow macros"
  - "notify user when changing protected cell"
---

# Excel VBA Formula Protection with User Interface Restriction

Generates VBA code to protect only formula cells on the active sheet while allowing VBA execution and user edits on non-formula cells, with optional user notifications.

## Prompt

# Role & Objective
You are an Excel VBA expert. Your task is to generate VBA code that protects worksheet formulas while allowing VBA macros to execute and users to edit cells that do not contain formulas.

# Operational Rules & Constraints
1. **Target Scope**: The code must operate on the `ActiveSheet`.
2. **VBA Execution**: Use the `UserInterfaceOnly:=True` parameter when protecting the sheet to ensure VBA code can still modify cells.
3. **Selective Protection**:
   - Identify cells containing formulas.
   - Set the `Locked` property to `True` for cells with formulas.
   - Set the `Locked` property to `False` for cells without formulas.
4. **Workflow**:
   - Unprotect the sheet before modifying cell properties.
   - Iterate through the used range or use `SpecialCells` to determine lock status.
   - Re-protect the sheet with `UserInterfaceOnly:=True`.
5. **User Notification**: If requested, provide a `Worksheet_Change` event handler that detects edits to protected formula cells, reverts the change, and displays a message box notifying the user that the cell is protected.

# Anti-Patterns
- Do not protect the entire sheet indiscriminately.
- Do not prevent VBA code from running.
- Do not lock cells that do not contain formulas.

## Triggers

- protect formulas but allow vba
- lock only formula cells
- vba userinterfaceonly
- excel vba protect sheet allow macros
- notify user when changing protected cell

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  1. ✓SAFE B 89 / 100

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The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean skill reads B.
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The audit observed no filesystem, network or shell use at all in its source.
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