How to Lock Cells 🔒in Excel to Protect your Formulas & Only Allow Input where Needed
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Learn how to lock cells in Excel for creating foolproof templates! This tutorial is ideal for those who want to ensure data integrity in shared documents.

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✅ What You'll Learn:
▪️ Setting up cell protection: A guide to using Excel's Review tab for sheet protection.
▪️ Password protection: How to add and remove passwords for extra security.
▪️ Formatting cells for protection: Detailed instructions on selecting and locking cells.
▪️ Customizing cell locking: Techniques for locking only specific cells or ranges.
▪️ Utilizing 'Find and Replace' for efficiency: A unique method to select cells based on color for protection.
▪️ Practical tips: Insights on protecting your formulas while allowing inputs in designated areas.

Ever created this perfect shared Excel template only to come back to a total disaster? Collaborating on shared spreadsheets can be painful. But it doesn't have to be that way! In this video I'll show you how you can lock and unlock any cell, or a whole range of cells, to keep your work protected. This way you'd be able to protect your formula cells and allow people to only input in specific ranges or cells. I'll also show you a cool Excel trick which allows you to multi-select cells based on their color and then lock those cells only.

00:00 How to protect cells in Excel
03:20 How to Multi-Select cells based on Color
05:29 Wrap Up

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