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.

To lock your file so that other users can't open it, see Protect an Excel file. To prevent users from adding, modifying, moving, copying, or hiding/unhiding sheets within a workbook, see Protect a …

You can lock specific cells and ranges before you protect an Excel worksheet. Follow these steps: Select the cells you want to lock. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, select the Alignment …

Excel gives you the ability to protect your work, whether it’s to prevent someone from opening a workbook without a password, granting Read-Only access to a workbook, or even just protecting a …

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 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 …

You can lock specific cells and ranges before you protect an Excel worksheet. Follow these steps: Select the cells you want to lock. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, select the Alignment …

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, …

Restrict changes in Excel On the Review tab, in the Protect group, review the following protection options: Protect Sheet Protect the worksheet and contents of locked cells. Protect Workbook Protect …

To prevent others from accessing data in your Excel files, protect your Excel file with a password. Note: This topic covers file-level protection only, and not workbook or worksheet protection. To learn the …