Here is a tutorial to lock or hide only the formula cells in an Excel workbook. You can also lock formulas in all worksheets in a workbook.

You worked hard to put that Excel sheet together, now protect it from unintended damage.

You can stop or prevent users from editing directly in cells in Excel. You have to lock and protect Cells in Excel by following these steps.

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

The good news is that it’s easy to protect and hide Excel formulas. I’ll show you how to do so in this article. I’m using Office 365’s Excel 2016 (desktop) on a Windows 10 64-bit system.

A. Try using Excel’s Protection ; it can hide underlying formulas and protect them from any attempted change. Here’s how it works: Before you enable Protection be sure to format the affected cells ...

There is actually an easy way to lock in parts of your formula so only the correct parameters change. Watch to learn how to use the $ sign to lock in formulas.

Sending Excel files containing crucial financial and business data has risks. To add a layer of protection, you should learn to password protect an Excel file.