- Lock or unlock specific areas of a protected worksheet
To enable some cell editing, while leaving other cells locked, it's possible to unlock all the cells 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
- Lock cells to protect them in Excel - Microsoft Support
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 close the popup
- Protect a worksheet - Microsoft Support
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 password
- Lock cells to protect them in Excel for Mac - Microsoft Support
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 to the cells, and then turning on protection of the sheet
- Restrict changes to files in Excel - Microsoft Support
You can use formatting and editing restrictions to prevent content reviewers from accidentally changing an Excel spreadsheet
- Protection and security in Excel - Microsoft Support
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 should be given
- Freeze panes to lock rows and columns - Microsoft Support
To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet, go to the View tab, where you can Freeze Panes to lock specific rows and columns in place, or you can Split panes to create separate windows of the same worksheet
- Protect controls and linked cells on a worksheet
To prevent users from changing the protections on the cells and controls that you have set, protect both the worksheet and the workbook For more information, see Protect a workbook
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