Cell protection in Excel refers to the ability to lock individual cells or ranges of cells to prevent them from being edited or modified. This can be done while allowing other cells on the sheet to be edited. When cells are locked, users can still view the data and perform calculations but...
You could use VBA code to prevent some cells from being edited, but that only helps with accidental edits. Someone who knows a bit about Excel can easily circumvent it by either opening the workbook without allowing macros, or by temporarily disabling events. Here is what you could do: Right...
Thank you for your kind response. marcocol Activate the Review tab of the ribbon. In the Protect group, click Protect Sheet. Clear the check boxes 'Select locked cells' and 'Select unlocked cells'. If you wish, enter a password that will be needed later on to unprotect the worksheet. ...
Now, in Excel, use the mouse to select the cells or the range that you want to protect. Right-click on it and select “Format cells ...” again. In the Protection tab, check the box next to Blocked. Select the “Check” menu in Excel and click the “Protect sheet” button. Assign...
I would like to seek advise from experts here on how to 'lock certain cells without protecting the worksheet.' Is it possible to do so? My company bought in a software license and we can generate the SPC graph on the same worksheet as the raw data (side-by-side), which is really...
But that would also make it impossible to "add/subtract/multiply/divide any of the cells and/or columns"... Oh I see. Okay, so that could be fine too. They'll just have to manually create a separate sheet and retype the numbers, in the event that the may want to calculate, I sup...
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