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Cindy has attended:
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Excel

Can you protect areas of a worksheet so that no one else can amend them and leave other sections free to be amended?

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Hi Cindy

Thank you for your question.

The answer is yes, you can.

To do this:

1. Firstly select the cells that you want people to be able to amend/edit.
2. Go to Format - Cells - Protection and uncheck the Locked box and click OK.
3. Then to apply protection to all other cells, go to Tools - Protection - Protect Sheet.
4. Enter a password if you wish. If you set a password, this means that someone has to enter the password in order to lift the protection on the spreadsheet.
5. Click OK.

You should find that you are able to edit/amend what is in the cells that you selected and unlocked in steps 1 and 2 above; but any other cells in the spreadsheet cannot be edited.

I hope this helps; and that you enjoy your next course in January.

Happy Christmas
Amanda


 

Excel tip:

Return to the active cell after scrolling

When I scroll a long way down the screen from a selected cell, I can return to that cell with the Ctrl+Back Space shortcut. The active cell now appears in roughly the middle of the screen.

Shift+Back Space does something similar. Scroll down from the active cell and Shift+Back Space returns me to it and puts the active cell at the top of the screen; scroll up from the active cell and Shift+Back Space returns me to it and puts the active cell at the bottom of the screen.

Note also, that while Ctrl+Back Space will return me back to a selected range, Shift+Back Space only ever returns me to the active cell, which is normally at the top left-hand corner of any selected range.

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