• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Digital Answers

How to tech tutorials in simple words

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy

Protect

How to Protect Formulas in Excel

February 22, 2023 by Admin Leave a Comment

Excel formulas are a powerful tool for automating calculations, but they can also be fragile if accidentally deleted or overwritten. Protecting your formulas is a critical step to ensuring the integrity of your data. In this post, we’ll walk through how to protect formulas in Excel.

Step 1: Select the cells you want to protect

First, select the cells that contain the formulas you want to protect. You can select a range of cells by clicking and dragging, or by holding down the Shift key and clicking the first and last cell in the range.

Step 2: Open the Format Cells dialog box

Next, right-click on the selected cells and choose “Format Cells” from the context menu. This will open the Format Cells dialog box.

Format Cells

Step 3: Select the Protection tab

In the Format Cells dialog box, click on the “Protection” tab. Here, you can choose to protect the cell’s contents or formatting. To protect the formulas, make sure the “Locked” checkbox is checked. And to hide the formulas, make sure the “Hidden” checkbox is checked.

Locked and Hidden Cells

Step 4: Protect the worksheet

Now that the cells with formulas are locked, you need to protect the entire worksheet. To do this, go to the “Review” tab and click on “Protect Sheet”. This will open the Protect Sheet dialog box.

In the Protect Sheet dialog box, you can choose which elements of the worksheet to protect. By default, all elements are selected, which means that users won’t be able to edit any cell on the worksheet. You can also choose to allow certain users to edit specific ranges of cells.

Protect Sheet

Step 5: Enter a password

In the Protect Sheet dialog box, you can also enter a password. This password will be required to unprotect the worksheet. Make sure to choose a password that’s easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess.

Enter Password to Lock cells

Step 6: Click OK

Finally, click OK to protect the worksheet. You should now see a message that the worksheet has been protected. Users will only be able to edit cells that are not locked or protected.

Locked Cells Alert Message

By following these steps, you can protect the formulas in your Excel worksheet and ensure that your data remains accurate and consistent.

In conclusion, protecting formulas in Excel is a simple but important step to safeguarding your data. By using the locking and protection features in Excel, you can prevent accidental changes to your formulas, and keep your data safe from unwanted edits.

Filed Under: Excel Tagged With: Locked, Protect

How to enable auto filter for protected sheet in Excel

October 10, 2015 by Admin 11 Comments

We had already seen the following tutorials related with protection of worksheet in Excel 2016, 2013 & 2010.

  • Prevent users from adding new worksheet.
  • Password Protect Worksheet in Excel.
  • Unprotect Worksheet in Excel.

And if a worksheet with auto filter is protected then users will not be able to use auto filter unless it is enabled while protecting the worksheet. This tutorial is about the steps required for enabling auto filter for a protected worksheet in Excel 2010.

Click the Protect Sheet option available under Review menu or Info menu.

Review Menu

Click Review menu –> Changes –> Protect Sheet

Review menu - Protect Sheet

Info Menu

Click File menu –> Info menu –> Protect Workbook –> Protect Current Sheet.

Info Menu - Protect Sheet

On clicking the Protect Sheet option would display the following Protect Sheet window.

Protect Sheet Excel 2010

Scroll down the “Allow all users of this worksheet to” list and make sure to tick the check box with caption as “Use AutoFilter”. Click OK button to confirm and save the changes.

Now excel users will be able to use the auto filter option even in a protected worksheet.

Protected Sheet with auto filter

Filed Under: Excel, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016 Tagged With: auto filter, Enable, Excel 2010, Protect, Worksheet

Hide worksheet formula in Excel 2013 & Excel 2010

July 26, 2015 by Admin Leave a Comment

Excel 2013 and Excel 2010 allow users to hide formula used in a Worksheet. You can use this feature when you want to prevent any one from accidentally changing the entered formula.

Let us say you want to hide the formula (=SUM(F5:F8)) which has been used in the bellow example.

image

Select the cell where the formula has been entered and navigate to Format menu and click the Format Cell menu option (You can also right click and select Format Cell in the Context menu).

In the Format Cell window, navigate to Protection tab and tick the checkbox with Label as Hidden. Click the Ok button to save the changes.

image

Then right click on the Sheet and select Protect Sheet from the list of available menu option.

image

In the Protect Sheet window, tick the check box with label as Protect worksheet and contents of locked cells.

image

If you want to just hide formula then it is not needed to password protect the sheet. Click Ok button to save the changes.

Now when you navigate to the Formula Cell, the formula bar will not displayed any information.

image

Bu this you can prevent excel users from seeing formula used in the worksheet.

Filed Under: Excel, Excel 2010, Office 2010 Tagged With: Excel 2010, Format Cell, Formula, Hidden, hide, Protect, Worksheet

How to password protect workbook in Excel Mac 2011

September 29, 2011 by Admin 1 Comment

Excel for Mac 2011 users can password protect the workbook using the option provided as part of the File menu. Click the File menu and select Passwords from the displayed menu list.

201109292051.jpg

This would display the following File Passwords window with different password option.

201109292054.jpg

You can set a password for opening the excel workbook using the Password to open field. Similarly to set a password for modifying the content in the excel workbook, you can use the Password to modify. If you want to make the workbook as readonly then mark the check box labelled as Read-only recommended.

Filed Under: Excel, Mac, Technical Tagged With: excel 2011, Mac, Password, Protect, Workbook

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Digital Photography for Seniors: Capturing and Sharing Memories
  • Learning New Skills Online: Websites and Platforms for Seniors
  • How to Use a Password Manager Effectively
  • Social Media Usage Tips and Tricks for a Balanced Life
  • Wi-Fi Optimization Tips and Tricks for Home Users

blogmines.com Copyright © 2023