How to lock cells in Excel to protect your data. You can also unlock a range of cells and grant permissions to others to edit.

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 …

Worksheet level protection is not intended as a security feature. It simply prevents users from modifying locked cells within the worksheet.

How to freeze panes in Excel to keep rows or columns in your worksheet visible while you scroll, or lock them in place to create multiple worksheet areas.

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 …

If you don't want content reviewers to accidentally change a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet, you can use formatting and editing restrictions. Note: To further restrict reviewers …

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

If you want to maintain the original cell reference when you copy it, you "lock" it by putting a dollar sign ($) before the cell and column references. For example, when you copy the formula …

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 …