How to protect an Excel worksheet

Protect Excel worksheet the quick and easy way.

Open your workbook, or a new excel file.

A new workbook will have Sheet1, Sheet2 and Sheet 3.

To protect a worksheet follow steps below:

Right click on Sheet1, or any worksheet you want to protect.

See image below:

Select the option "Protect Sheet".

After clicking on "Protect Sheet", the protect sheet window will open.

And on the textbox, type the password to protect your worksheet.

You will need to retype the password to confirm worksheet protection.

After typing twice your password and clicking the OK button.

You can try to clicking on any cells and it will display a message that the cells are read only.

Make sure you never forget the password, or have a copy of the password on your Android phone.

Hope you find it useful!! J

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