In Excel 2003, you protected a worksheet, and in the list of options, added a checkmark to allow all users of the worksheet to use PivotTable reports.

However, you can’t create a new pivot table, or refresh a pivot table on the worksheet because some buttons on the PivotTable toolbar are disabled.

When you protect a worksheet and allow use of PivotTable reports, you can work with existing PivotTable reports. You can’t create a new PivotTable report on the protected sheet, or refresh existing pivot tables.

To refresh the pivot table, you can temporarily unprotect the worksheet, refresh the pivot table, then protect the sheet. You can do this manually, or record a macro, then run that macro to refresh the pivot table.

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For more information on pivot tables, see the PivotTable Topics on my Contextures web site.