You can lock only specific cells and ranges before you protect the worksheet and, optionally, enable specific users to edit only in specific ranges of a protected sheet.

On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, select the Alignment Settings arrow to open the Format Cells popup window. On the Protection tab, select the Locked check box, and then select OK …

To prevent other users from accidentally or deliberately changing, moving, or deleting data in a worksheet, you can lock the cells on your Excel worksheet and then protect the sheet with a …

You can protect the Excel file by specifying two passwords: one to open, and the other to modify. You can later share the appropriate passwords with the team depending on the access they …

How to protect an Excel file using a password to prevent unwanted access to your data.

On the Protection tab, select the Locked check box. If the control has a linked cell, unlock the cell so that the control can write to it, and then hide the cell so that a user cannot cause …

To protect certain areas of the data in your worksheet from other users, you have to protect your worksheet. For more information, see Protect a worksheet. To know the difference between …

To prevent a user from accidentally or deliberately changing, moving, or deleting important data, you can lock cells and protect them. Locking cells takes two steps: adding the Lock formatting …

Make cells display the formulas they contain, instead of the formula results. Protect cells so that formulas cannot be displayed or changed.

In Excel, you can select cell contents of one or more cells, rows and columns. Note: If a worksheet has been protected, you might not be able to select cells or their contents on a …