Good day,
Im almost completed with my data tool which i am going to send to our offices across the country. i will like to ensure that most of the information stays the same. in order to do this, i will like to lock some cells on all the pages on my sheet.
i reseached online and there were suggestions about locking the cells and then protecting the page. however, when i do that, i cant edit ALL the cells on the prpotected page. is there a way to protect only some cells so that they are untouchable and some are edittable?
thanks
You must unlock the cells that should stay editable after protecting the sheet. You can do that in the Formating Cells Dialog. First select the cells you want to format. Then press {ctrl + 1}. On the protection tab, deselect the locked option. Then protect the sheet.
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it sounds simple but I am struggling
Do you know how to password protect a single sheet (there’s multiple sheets in the work book) so that you can only view it with a password. So the user can’t see it with the ‘read only’ option, I can only seem to be able to do it to the whole workbook. But just need it for 1 sheet only?
Thanks
A visually undiscoverable and password-protected sheet. C4 has test, but you can't see it. I also removed gridlines for grins.
I thought about this for a bit, and here's my best answer:
Change the cell and font colors to be the same
Protect the sheet and disable the ability to change ANYTHING.
Hide the sheet, if necessary.
This would force someone to:
Have the password.
Select All fields on that page, and then change the font color.
If memory serves correctly, this can easily be hacked by importing the workbook to Google Sheets, converting it to a Sheet, and then re-exporting it back to XLSX. In other words, don't be trying to hide anything TOO sensitive here.
I have an excel sheet with 100s of rows. I want to be able to lock a particular range from being edited while the others can be left editable. And protect the locked range with a password.
Please help
Activesheet.protect locks the whole sheet. I want it only for a few cells.
F1 opens the Excel help. If you do a search in there, or on google, the top result would be the following link:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Lock-or-unlock-specific-areas-of-a-protected-worksheet-75481b72-db8a-4267-8c43-042a5f2cd93a
This should help you out.
In short:
Right click on the cells you want editable
Format Cells...
Tab Protection
For cells that people should be able to Edit: Uncheck "Locked". For cells that people should NOT be able to edit, leave the check for "Locked".
Click OK.
Next, go to the Review tab in the Ribbon and protect your sheet as normal.
How can I stop a user selecting an entire row or column in excel? The problem is that user selects the row to take the data they want, but they also get a bunch of hidden cells etc. that I don't want them to take.
Lock the hidden cells, unlock everything else and protect the worksheet with the sole restriction of Select locked cells (allow everything else).
I am creating a template in excel where I only want the user to be able to enter information in some of the cells. For that reason I have locked some cells and unlocked some others and I have also protect the corresponding sheet.
The user wants to be able to copy information from other excel sheet to one of the unlocked cells of the template and be able to change the format of the pasted text, being bold and underline options avaliable.
Is there any way to do that without having to unlock the sheet?
Thank you in advance for your time.
There are options when you apply protection to the sheet to still allow formatting.
There is no issue copying and pasting into a locked cell as far as I am aware.
There is an option when you apply protection to a worksheet in Excel to allow "Format Cells". Choose this if you want them to be able to apply formatting to the cell. Likewise, Format Rows and Format Columns if you want the user to be able top adjust the row height and column width.
I have made one worksheet. And there I don't have option for Macro Enabled, as It is going to be distributed among lots of users to fill the information.
Now the question is, there are some data validation fields in worksheet.
If I do copy any data and paste on that field column, it takes any values in that, which is not correct.
Is there any way to prevent paste on cells without Macro code?
Thank you,
If you want to prevent ANY data entry in those cells you can mark them as locked & protect the sheet with a password.
If you want to allow editing those cells but need to validate that only certain data is allowed, you can use Data Validation, Custom & enter a formula.
You won't be able to use custom VBA functions but most standard Excel functions should work.