Locking is a handy function in Excel that allows users to lock specific or all cells in a worksheet to prevent any intentional or unintentional editing of them. You can easily lock cells in a sheet by ...

Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.

To lock cells in Microsoft Excel, follow the methods below. A Format Cells dialog box is open. In the dialog box, click the Protection tab. On the Protection tab page, check if the lock checkbox is ...

Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse when it comes to calculating numbers. With its vast assortment of functions, you can construct formulas to derive virtually any numeric result. However, if these ...

If a user inadvertently changes the formulas in your Excel workbooks, all your hard work could go out the window. This ebook explains how to protect and hide those formulas so they remain safe and ...

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are programs that allow users to arrange and make sense of a great deal of data. This information can be ordered into neat, color-coordinated columns and rows (using ...

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I have a simple spreadsheet with 15 columns and ~200 rows. At some point when doing a custom sort on it, one of the columns was not selected, therefore destroying the relationship of the data. Excel ...

It's often useful to freeze header rows in place in Microsoft Excel to remember what type of data is in various columns as you scroll or search through a lengthy spreadsheet. You can also make sure ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that seem to ...