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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...
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:
- Unlock the cells that should be editable in the Protection tab of the Format Cells dialog.
- Protect the worksheet on the Review tab of the ribbon.)
Not sure when this was added, but I do see the option for it now in Excel Online. If you select a cell or a range of cells and click the "Review" Tab, there is a toolbar button for "Protection" that allows you to protect the sheet and then define which rages are allowed to be edited, as well as specify a sheet protection password to allow people with that password to edit protected parts of the sheet.