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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you use a computer, you probably have some Microsoft Excel documents on your Mac or PC that you wouldn’t want other people to find and read. After all, Excel serves not only the average person, but ...

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Any program that doesn't do what you expect or let you make changes to something you should be able to edit is frustrating, and Excel is no exception. When it comes to Excel not permitting the ...

Excel allows you to lock specific areas of a sheet with a password or protect the entire workbook. You can also set an Excel ...

Creating a macro in Microsoft Excel allows you to program automatic tasks into a spreadsheet or template that can contain multiple commands or functions for easy access and use. After these macros are ...

Microsoft Excel allows users to edit a cell in the cell itself. However, if you need to use a lot of big and complicated formulas, you might need to use the Formula bar. On the other hand, if you need ...

I have a file my organization uses to track all kinds of production data that was created several years ago. It has 3 macros attached – I’m not sure what they really do, but when you open the file ...