Workbook Refresh Sheet Protection

Hello Gurus.
I want to protect some cells in the sheet from the user, in order not to modified it, i'm using BEx 3.5 and the excel function of blocking cells and sheet protection, but when I save the workbook and then try to refresh it, it's saying me that this function is not available with excel protection, so I wonder of another way of protect my cells from user and also be able to refresh data in query.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
there is a possibility to use the SAP Workbook protection.
Menu Business Explorer->Tools->SAP Protection. This prevents people from changing anything outside query area.
regards,
Raymond Baggen
Uphantis bv

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Hi Gurus,
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Raghavendra.

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