Works: Able to Sort Records or Rows with Protection Enabled

SUMMARY

Even when the Protection options (Protect Field in Works 4.0, 4.0a, 4.5, or 4.5a, or Locked, Protect Data, and/or Protect Form in Works 2.0 and 3.0) are selected in the Works for Windows Database module, the record order can be changed by choosing the Sort Records command.

When Locked and Protect Data are selected in the Spreadsheet module, the cell contents can still be changed by choosing the Sort (Works 4.0, 4.0a, 4.5 or 4.5a) or Sort Rows (Works 2.0 and 3.0) command.

This could be a problem if other cells in the spreadsheet contain references to cells that were reordered. The Protect Data command is designed to keep the cells from being manually deleted or changed by reentering data into protected cells, reformatting (except row height and column width), or spell checking.