how to use microsoft excel protect cells from editing

Full feature free trial 30-day, no credit card required! Free Trial Now!ġ. Kutools for Excel- Includes more than 300 handy tools for Excel. If you have Kutools for Excel installed, you can simplify steps to protect current worksheet’s formatting only. Protect worksheet's formatting only with Kutools for Excel Note: If you want to set a password to protect the sheet, you can enter the password as your need, but if you needn't, just only click OK button in the Protect Sheet dialog box. Then click OK, and all the selected cells content can be edited as your need, but the cell formatting can't be modified. And in the popped out dialog box, make sure the Format cells is unchecked (it is not checked by default), and you needn't change any information in the dialog box, see screenshot:ħ.

Go on to click Review > Protect Sheet to protect the worksheet, see screenshot:Ħ. If you need to allow others to edit multiple ranges in this worksheet, please repeat above step 1-4 as you need.ĥ. In the Format Cells dialog box, click Protection tab, and uncheck the Locked option. Select the range cells that you want others to be able to edit, and then right click and choose Format Cells from the context menu, see screenshot:Ģ. Supposing I have applied the formatting to the range cells as following screenshot shows, and now I will talk about how to protect worksheet's formatting only step by step:ġ.

How to use microsoft excel protect cells from editing