Locking cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is among the most commonly used functions. Here’s a guide on how to lock cells in Excel.

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

If Excel is not highlighting cells in the formula, enable 'Allow editing directly in cells' and 'Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop' in Excel options.

We need to briefly cover what happens when you merge several cells in Excel or Google Sheets. Or, more specifically, what does not. The merge cells function is designed to combine the actual cells ...

To change Gridline color in Excel, use Excel Options, apply a custom-colored border to the cells, or apply a custom line color. Full details here.

To lock your cells in Microsoft Excel, you just need to head into the program's "Protection" tab. Locking a cell in Excel will make it so viewers can't change the data inside of that cell, which ...

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.

You can hide and unhide rows in Excel by right-clicking, or reveal all hidden rows using the "Format" option in the "Home" tab.

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

The ability to lock cells or elements of Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, but not the full sheet, allows maximum customization and control of a project.

Do you want to keep important labels and data in view as you scroll through your Excel worksheets? Here are the steps to freezing those columns and rows.