To make your cell non-editable in Excel, you have to lock the cell and use a password to protect the information. Learn how!

Locking individual or multiple cells Step 1: An Excel spreadsheet might already be locked. Therefore, to lock individual or multiple cells, you’ll have to unlock the spreadsheet first.

Safeguard your Excel worksheets from accidentally deleting formulas or data sets by locking important cells, while leaving the rest of the worksheet editable.

To lock cells so only one person can edit, you need to use a password. For that, open the sheet and go to the Review tab. Click on the Protect Sheet option and enter a password.

In Microsoft Excel, each cell is locked automatically. In enabling protection of a spreadsheet, it will often be faster to unlock everything and then re-enable the lock on chosen cells.

How to lock cells in Excel 1. Select your whole sheet, done most easily by pressing Crtl + A on your PC keyboard, or Command + A on a Mac. 2. In the "Home" tab, click on the arrow under "Alignment ...