I added an icon to a toolbar
tools|customize|commands tab|format category
look for the "lock cell" icon. In xl2003, it looks like a padlock.

Then drag it to your favorite toolbar.

You can select a cell and look at that icon. If it's depressed, the cell is
locked.


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Another way if you're not using format|conditional formatting, you could select
the cells (all of them???) and with A1 the the activecell:

Format|conditional formatting
formula is: =cell("protect",a1)
Give it a nice format.

PCLIVE wrote:

Is there a way for Excel to indicate which cells are locked without having
to view the properties of each cell individually.

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Dave Peterson