You can select all cells on a sheet using Ctrl + a(twice in Excel 2003)
Or clicking on the intesection button left of A and above 1
If you go to ToolsCustomizeCommandsFormat and scroll down you will find a
padlock icon.
Move it to your Toolbar.
After selecting all cells simply click on the padlock.
It toggles "locked" off/on.
To have the default for each sheet to be unlocked you would need to create a
new default Template for new workbooks/worksheets.
If you want that see this message.
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Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:22:40 -0800, "Joe User" <joeu2004 wrote:
Apparently, by default, all cells in a worksheet are locked (Format Cells
Protection). Consequently, when I set worksheet protection (Tools
Protection Protect Sheet Password), all cells are protected.
I want to protect just 4 cells. So I think I want the default for all cells
to be unlocked. Then I would lock the 4 cells and set worksheet protection.
Of course, I could manually select every cell in the worksheet (A1:IV65536)
and change the Protection format to unlock. But besides being a "pain", it
appears to increase the worksheet size "unnecessarily".
Is there a better way to change the default cell protection to unlocked?