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 …

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 control how users should work within an individual worksheet, use worksheet-level protection. Let’s say each worksheet in your status report workbook contains data that is common to all worksheets, …

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.

How to protect an Excel file using a password to prevent unwanted access to your data.

If you don't want the formulas hidden when the sheet is protected in the future, right-click the cells, and select Format Cells. On the Protection tab, clear the Hidden check box.

On the Review tab in the ribbon, in the Changes group, select either Protect Sheet or Protect Workbook, and then reapply protection. See Protect a worksheet or Protect a workbook.

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 …

To prevent users from changing the protections on the cells and controls that you have set, protect both the worksheet and the workbook. For more information, see Protect a workbook.

Excel allows you to grant permissions to specific users and user groups to modify selected ranges within a protected worksheet. To make it easier to move through editable ranges, you can also disable the …