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Is there a way to protect individual cells?
Hello, is there a way to protect individual cells? Thank you! -- amos79 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ amos79's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27591 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471120 |
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amos79 Wrote: Hello, is there a way to protect individual cells? Thank you! Go to *Tools/Protection/Protect Sheet* Regards. -- BenjieLop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BenjieLop's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=11019 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471120 |
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Good afternoon Amos79 But remember that this will protect only cells that have the protection flag set and that new workbooks have all cells set to protected as default. To set the protect flag to false, select all the cells you want UNPROTECTED and then press ctrl + 1, protections and unchecked the "locked" box. Then you can use the Tools Protection Protect Sheet. HTH DominicB -- dominicb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dominicb's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=18932 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471120 |
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All cells are protected by default, but not effective until the sheet is
protected. Before protecting the sheet, you want to either turn off protection for cells you want to change or to turn off protection for all cells, and then protect the cells you don't want to change before turning on sheet protection. Select the cells you want to change , then Format, cells, protection The unprotect all cells first before protecting just some of the cells use Ctrl+A to select all cells, or in 2003 use Ctrl+Shift+SpaceBar to select all cells Format, cells, protection --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "BenjieLop" wrote in message ... amos79 Wrote: Hello, is there a way to protect individual cells? Thank you! Go to *Tools/Protection/Protect Sheet* Regards. -- BenjieLop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BenjieLop's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=11019 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471120 |
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amos79,
By default all cells in excel are protected or locked, select the cells you want to unlock and go to format, cells, protection and uncheck locked, the go to tools, protection, and protect sheet, enter a password if you want, now only the cells that you unlocked can be edited. Be aware that this protection is very easy to break, the code to do so can be found very easy, but it will work for most people . If you only need a few locked I would select them all first, Ctrl A, then go to format, cells, protection and uncheck locked, then select the cells you want to lock and go to format cells and check locked, the go to tools, protection, and protect sheet, enter a password if you want, now the cells that you locked can not be edited -- Paul B Always backup your data before trying something new Please post any response to the newsgroups so others can benefit from it Feedback on answers is always appreciated! Using Excel 2002 & 2003 "amos79" wrote in message ... Hello, is there a way to protect individual cells? Thank you! -- amos79 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ amos79's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27591 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=471120 |
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