Luckily, the in-built feature of excel will allow you to protect all cells. Additionally, you can also lock only specific cells you want. With this feature, you can restrict access to other team members from editing or deleting. You can also remove it anytime you want. So, In this article, you will learn how to password protect cells in excel.
How to Password Protect Cells in Excel
You can lock specific cells, all cells, or formula cells to protect them. If you put password protection, others cannot make changes in the protected cell. However, please note that you can not protect it when accessed from the web. This only works on your excel app. Similarly, by default, all your excel cells are locked. So, you need to unlock all cells before protecting specific cells. Please find the steps for locking various cells below.
Protect Specific Cells
Sometimes, there might be a need for editing on some cells. In such a case, you can protect only specific cells to prevent other users from editing them. To put a password, please follow the given steps.
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Protect Formula Cells
Sometimes you might need to protect cells with formula when you don’t want to risk losing them. Again, as I mentioned earlier, you must unlock all the cells first to lock formula cells. Please follow the given steps.
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On Windows
Protect All Cells
There’s an option for users who wish to protect entire cells. If you lock all the cells, others will need a password to edit. However, you can also opt for the options to allow editing access to other users. You can either allow them to format, insert, and delete cells or only select cells. Check out the given steps below to put the password.
How to Unprotect Cells in Excel
You can unprotect cells at any moment for your convenience. Removing passwords from cells will provide open access for editing to users. Check out the steps to unlock cells.
How Can I Tell if My Worksheet Is Protected?
You can easily know if your worksheet is protected by navigating to the Review tab of your sheet. It shows unprotect sheet or unprotect workbook if either of them is locked. You can tap and enter a password to unprotect the sheet and workbook.
