Protect or Unprotect All Worksheets At Once

If you want to protect or unprotect all worksheets in Excel, you only can do each worksheet manually. Is there any way to have a Macro protect or unprotect multiple worksheets at once in Excel quickly and easily?

Protect All Worksheets At Once

Protect All Worksheets Use InputBox

Sub ProtectAllWorksheetsWithInputbox()
'Step 1:  Declare your variables
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim Pwd As String
'Step 2: enter your password to protect all worksheets
    Pwd = InputBox("Enter your password to protect all worksheets", "Password Input")
'Step 3: Start looping through all worksheets
    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
'Step 4:  Protect and loop to next worksheet
        ws.Protect Password:=Pwd
    Next ws
End Sub

Protect All Worksheets With Specific Password

Sub ProtectAllWorksheets()
'Step 1:  Declare your variables
    Dim ws As Worksheet
'Step 2: Start looping through all worksheets
    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
'Step 3:  Protect all worksheets with specific password and loop to next worksheet
    ws.Protect Password:="excel2013"
    Next ws
End Sub

Unprotect All Worksheets At Once

Unprotect All Worksheets Use InputBox

Sub UnProtectAllWorksheetsWithInputbox()
'Step 1: Declare your variables
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim Pwd As String
'Step 2: enter your password to unprotect all worksheets
    Pwd = InputBox("Enter your password to unprotect all worksheets", "Password Input")
    On Error Resume Next
'Step 3: Start looping through all worksheets
    For Each ws In Worksheets
'Step 4: Unprotect all worksheets and loop to next worksheet
        ws.Unprotect Password:=Pwd
    Next ws
'Step 5: Error handling
    If Err <> 0 Then
        MsgBox "You have entered an incorect password. All worksheets could not " & _
        "be unprotected.", vbCritical, "Incorect Password"
    End If
    On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

Unprotect All Worksheets With Specific Password

Sub UnprotectAllWorksheets()
'Step 1:  Declare your variables
    Dim ws As Worksheet
'Step 2: Start looping through all worksheets
    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
'Step 3:  Unprotect all worksheets with specific password and loop to next worksheet
    ws.Unprotect Password:="excel2013"
    Next ws
End Sub

Unprotect Specific Worksheet With Specific Password

Sub UnprotectSpecificWorksheet()
'Unprotect specific worksheet with specific password
    Sheets("Sheet1").Unprotect Password:="excel2003"
    Sheets("Sheet2").Unprotect Password:="excel2007"
    Sheets("Sheet3").Unprotect Password:="excel2010"
    Sheets("Sheet4").Unprotect Password:="excel2013"
End Sub

How to Use

To use this macro, you can copy and paste it into a standard module:

1. Activate the Visual Basic Editor by pressing ALT+F11.
2. Right-click the project/workbook name in the Project window.
3. Choose Insert -> Module.
   
4. Type or paste the code in the newly created module.