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Locking cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is a super useful thing to know how to do. It’s used to protect a certain segment or an entire worksheet from being modified by anyone other than the ...

To lock cells in Microsoft Excel, follow the methods below. A Format Cells dialog box is open. In the dialog box, click the Protection tab. On the Protection tab page, check if the lock checkbox is ...

Locking is a handy function in Excel that allows users to lock specific or all cells in a worksheet to prevent any intentional or unintentional editing of them. You can easily lock cells in a sheet by ...

It's often useful to freeze header rows in place in Microsoft Excel to remember what type of data is in various columns as you scroll or search through a lengthy spreadsheet. You can also make sure ...

Microsoft Excel lets you embed content from other applications, including PDF files. You can embed a PDF file into a cell of an Excel worksheet and then use Excel's security features to lock the ...

I have had a request to protect some documents that are being uploaded to Dropbox to attempt to automate hiding and locking specific columns of all historical excel documents.

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...

In Microsoft Excel, you can permanently hide columns containing data you don't need to have on show. However, grouping columns is often a better way to achieve the same outcome, especially if you're ...

When you’re working on an Excel worksheet with complex formulas, the last thing you want is to accidentally delete a formula or set of data and completely change the output. Fortunately, you can ...