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 close the …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 from making …

If you want to maintain the original cell reference when you copy it, you "lock" it by putting a dollar sign ($) before the cell and column references. For example, when you copy the formula =$A$2+$B$2 …

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 …

To lock your file so that other users can't open it, see Protect an Excel file. To protect certain areas of the data in your worksheet from other users, you have to protect your worksheet.

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, …