How to lock cells in Excel to protect your data. You can also unlock a range of cells and grant permissions to others to edit.

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet, go to the View tab, where you can Freeze Panes to lock specific rows and columns in place, or you can Split panes …

Suppose you want to protect an entire workbook, but also wants to be able to change a few cells after you enable that protection. Before you enabled password protection, you can unlock some cells in …

To prevent other users from accidentally or deliberately changing, moving, or deleting data in a worksheet, you can lock the cells on your Excel worksheet and then protect the sheet with a password.

Lock specific rows or columns in place by freezing panes, so you can scroll through an Excel spreadsheet and still see the top row or left column. You can freeze just the top row and first column …

In the figure below—because D5 was chosen—columns to its left (A-C) and rows above it (1-4) are frozen by the split. Then, by selecting a row below row 4 and scrolling up, you no longer see rows 5 …

You can use formatting and editing restrictions to prevent content reviewers from accidentally changing an Excel spreadsheet.

For example, you can give users the ability to enter data, but keep them from deleting rows or columns, or only insert hyperlinks or sort data. You can use one or more levels of protection for your Excel …

To freeze multiple columns (starting with column A), select the column to the right of the last column you want to freeze, and then tap View > Freeze Panes > Freeze Panes.

How to change the column width and row height, including how to use the AutoFit feature, in your Excel worksheet.