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Tom_M_1969
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Jan 14, 2022

Locking cells in Excel Online? Is it possible?

Microsoft's website claims that the online version of Excel has a feature that will allow you to lock certain cells so that they can't be accidentally overwritten, but it doesn't explain how to do it...
  • HansVogelaar's avatar
    Jan 14, 2022

    Tom_M_1969 

    You have to apply the protection in the desktop version (for Windows or Mac). If you then upload the workbook to the cloud and open it in Excel Online, the protection will still work.

     

    (Protecting is a two-step process:

    1. Unlock the cells that should be editable in the Protection tab of the Format Cells dialog.
    2. Protect the worksheet on the Review tab of the ribbon.)

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