Microsoft Excel is one of the most popular and easy-to-use software. It was created by Microsoft and it allows users to organize and format data in rows and columns format. In this article, we will see how we can lock cells in Excel and protect them with a password.

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Suppose that your boss wants you to protect an entire workbook, but also wants to be able to change a few cells after you enable protection on the workbook. Before you enabled password protection, you had unlocked some cells in the workbook. Now that your boss is done with the workbook, you can lock these cells.

Moving the pointer to cells for which the Locked check box is cleared on the Protection tab of the Format Cells dialog box. By default, users can select unlocked cells, and they can press the TAB key to move between the unlocked cells on a protected worksheet.

Making changes to graphic objects including maps, embedded charts, shapes, text boxes, and controls that you did not unlock before you protected the worksheet. For example, if a worksheet has a button that runs a macro, you can click the button to run the macro, but you cannot delete the button.

Copying the expression =$A2 horizontally will always result in =$A2. This is intentional, since '$' is the 'locker' symbol. If you need specific part of the reference to change you shouldn't use a '$' before it.

Thankfully, Microsoft Excel 2016 and earlier versions lets you lock cells or protect cells to keep them from being modified in Windows 10. You can lock all the cells in a worksheet or specific cells, allowing some parts of the spreadsheet to be changed. Here's how to lock cells in Excel.

By default, when you protect cells in a sheet or workbook, all of the cells will be locked. This means they can't be reformatted or deleted, and the content in them can't be edited. By default, the locked cells can be selected, but you can change that in the protection options.

There might be times when you want to lock certain cells from being changed but still allow users to adjust other cells in a worksheet. In our example, in an inventory list you might allow unit prices and stock quantities to be updated, but not the item IDs, names, or descriptions. As mentioned above, all cells are locked by default when you protect the sheet. However, you can specify whether a certain cell should be locked or unlocked in the cell's format properties.

4. Go to Review > Protect Sheet and hit OK to protect the sheet. Any cells you didn't unlock under the Format Cells option (step 3 above) will be locked, while the unlocked cells will be editable:

Protip: If you want to quickly lock or unlock cells that aren't next to each other, you can use a keyboard shortcut. After selecting a certain cell or group of cells, use the Format Cells dialog as above to lock or unlock it. Then select your next cell(s) and hit F4 to repeat your last action.

I have an excel file that is shared through dropbox but not on the actual excel file. Multiple people use this excel file to keep track of things on a spreadsheet, however, when two people are in it at once, the saves get messed up and it creates a new file where it saves for the user that edited it, but it does not save on the original file for the other users to be able to view. I'm not sure I fully understand the problem so I hope I have adequately described what I believe is going on.

Basically, I am wondering if there is a way to lock the dropbox/excel file so only one person can get into it and edit it at one time, but everyone that it is shared with still has their same permissions to be able to edit it- but only when no one else is in the file.

so User-A is connected to VPN and opens ExcelA.xlsx a lock file is created as I would expect but if VPN disconnects and User-A reconnects to the VPN (while keeping the excel document open) the lock file then disappears then User-B can open the file without being told the file is open and make an edit, Then if User-A hits save they are then unable to as it reports that another user has made changes...

Once the connection to the VPN was lost, User-A's PC was unable to maintain the lock file. Assuming that it had been left behind in the folder from the disconnection, User-B could simply delete the lock file and continue on with their work.

Sometimes, lock files remain even after a user properly closes the software. When that happens, another user would think that the file is in use by others. The lock file would need to simply be deleted in order for the accessing user to proceed.

What I have not seen, is a lock file remove itself. They are (ideally) removed by the application, when the file is properly and gracefully closed. I have not seen an accidental VPN disconnect remove a lock file automatically. But just because I've not seen it, doesn't mean it isn't possible.

What happened is that somebody had used the same menu and selected Freeze Panes while the current cell was somewhere around cell H50. This means that the first seven columns (A through G) and 49 rows (1 through 49) were locked in place, and any scrollable content appeared to the right and below.

I have come across multiple articles about how there will seem to be a phantom lock on a document (network shared) by another user. I'm having the opposite problem. I have a shared excel document that doesn't show locked by any users when multiple users have it open. This is creating problems when another user overwrites another user's work. None of the document protection settings are turned up, and this wasn't a problem as of a couple weeks ago. The behavior I expect to see when a user opens a document that's already opened by another user is that they will get the locked for editing message. This does not happen. I haven't been able to find a specific article that addresses this problem, so I'm looking to the all-wise IT Ninjas community for advice. Thank you in advance for your suggestions!

I have a batch that will read data from an excel file on a daily basis, and run the programs whose filepath is included in the file. This will make it easier to add new programs to the batch, and keep track of which programs have a batch job.

Few people have access to the excel-file, and getting a lock would be quite rare, as the batch runs outside of working hours. Still, I was wondering if there is a way to read the file even if the excel file is opened by someone. There doesn't seem to be a sas-spesific way to do this, but I can sort of imagine how to write this as a shell script that either runs is the file has a lock, as a X-command, or just writing a standalone shellscprit that either forces a close or makes a copy, so that the batch can import the file with the contents of the previously saved file.

Have you tried testing this to see what happens? I ask because as you aren't writing back to the excel file I can't see why there would be an issue as sas would presumably just get a read only version of the file just as a user would when they open a worksheet already opened by another user.

I'm on an enterprise license. I use the live data connector to link excel with smartsheet sheet(s) and report(s). It's has limitations (sharing/security) but it eliminates the need to constantly export data. A plus is that the excel sheet can be refreshed to reflect changes in smartsheet data.

5. Be sure that Protect worksheet and contents of locked cells in checked and only check the Select unlocked cells box. Any boxes that are check are things that users are allowed to do. By checking Select unlocked cells, nothing else on the protected sheet can be selected and there is no way to have important formulas or other structural items to be deleted. Create a password if you would like and click OK.

I have a workbook(1), contains a worksheet that once filled with user entered parameters, generates data through a VBA module (macro). This module(1) is a proprietary algorithm, and the author has locked the VBA project to protect the module from being tampered with/modified (and rightly so). 2351a5e196

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