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 và then protect the sheet with a password. Say you own the team status report worksheet, where you want team members to showroom data in specific cells only and not be able lớn modify anything else. With worksheet protection, you can make only certain parts of the sheet editable và users will not be able khổng lồ modify data in any other region in the sheet.
Important: Worksheet level protection is not intended as a security feature. It simply prevents users from modifying locked cells within the worksheet. Protecting a worksheet is not the same as protecting an Excel tệp tin or a workbook with a password. See below for more information:
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The following sections describe how lớn protect và unprotect a worksheet in Excel for Windows.
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Choose what cell elements khổng lồ lock
Here"s what you can lock in an unprotected sheet:
Note: ActiveX controls, khung controls, shapes, charts, SmartArt, Sparklines, Slicers, Timelines, lớn name a few, are already locked when you địa chỉ cửa hàng them to a spreadsheet. But the lock will work only when you enable sheet protection. See the subsequent section for more information on how to enable sheet protection.
Enable worksheet protection
Worksheet protection is a two-step process: the first step is lớn unlock cells that others can edit, & then you can protect the worksheet with or without a password.
Step 1: Unlock any cells that needs lớn be editable
In your Excel file, select the worksheet tab that you want to lớn protect.
Select the cells that others can edit.
Tip: You can select multiple, non-contiguous cells by pressing Ctrl+Left-Click.
Right-click anywhere in the sheet and select Format Cells (or use Ctrl+1, or Command+1 on the Mac), and then go lớn the Protection tab & clear Locked.
Step 2: Protect the worksheet
Next, select the actions that users should be allowed to take on the sheet, such as insert or delete columns or rows, edit objects, sort, or use AutoFilter, to lớn name a few. Additionally, you can also specify a password to lớn lock your worksheet. A password prevents other people from removing the worksheet protection—it needs lớn be entered to lớn unprotect the sheet.
Given below are the steps to lớn protect your sheet.
On the Review tab, click Protect Sheet.
In the Allow all users of this worksheet to list, select the elements you want people to be able to change.
| Select locked cells | Move the pointer lớn cells for which the Locked box is checked on the Protection tab of the Format Cells dialog box. By default, users are allowed to lớn select locked cells. |
| Select unlocked cells | Move the pointer lớn cells for which the Locked box is unchecked 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. |
| Format cells | Change any of the options in the Format Cells or Conditional Formatting dialog boxes. If you applied conditional formatting before you protected the worksheet, the formatting continues to lớn change when a user enters a value that satisfies a different condition. |
| Format columns | Use any of the column formatting commands, including changing column width or hiding columns (Home tab, Cells group, Format button). |
| Format rows | Use any of the row formatting commands, including changing row height or hiding rows (Home tab, Cells group, Format button). Xem thêm: Hướng Dẫn Cách In File Pdf Thành Sách, Hướng Dẫn Cách In Booklet Pdf Chi Tiết Nhất |
| Insert columns | Insert columns. |
| Insert rows | Insert rows. |
| Insert hyperlinks | Insert new hyperlinks, even in unlocked cells. |
| Delete columns | Delete columns. Note: If Delete columns is protected & Insert columns is not protected, a user can insert columns but cannot delete them. Note: If Delete rows is protected & Insert rows is not protected, a user can insert rows but cannot delete them. Note: Users can"t sort ranges that contain locked cells on a protected worksheet, regardless of this setting. |
| Use AutoFilter | Use the drop-down arrows to lớn change the filter on ranges when AutoFilters are applied. |
| Use PivotTable reports | Format, change the layout, refresh, or otherwise modify PivotTable reports, or create new reports. |
| Edit objects | Doing any of the following: Make 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. Make any changes, such as formatting, lớn an embedded chart. The chart continues to lớn be updated when you change its source data. Add or edit notes. |
| Edit scenarios | View scenarios that you have hidden, making changes to lớn scenarios that you have prevented changes to, và deleting these scenarios. Users can change the values in the changing cells, if the cells are not protected, and showroom new scenarios. |
Optionally, enter a password in the Password khổng lồ unprotect sheet box và click OK. Reenter the password in the Confirm Password dialog box & click OK.
Important:
Use strong passwords that combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, và symbols. Weak passwords don"t set these elements. Passwords should be 8 or more characters in length. A passphrase that uses 14 or more characters is better.
It is critical that you remember your password. If you forget your password, studyinuk.edu.vn cannot retrieve it.
