Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/lock-unlock-cells-file

Not only did I learn how to lock/unlock cells, but also learned how to select only shaded cells. Another really easy and helpful tutorial. Thank you!

@zayaneats9930

2 жыл бұрын

Gi Yeh...❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@Jaque12345Jaque

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Super helpful!!

@user-qm4dm9gs8o

2 жыл бұрын

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Whilst I knew how to lock cells, I had no clue I could select cells using the find function by colour - what an amazing time saving tip - awesome 👏

Hi Leila My Top Tip if you're doing a lot of work locking / unlocking cells is to put the "Lock Cell" button into the quick access toolbar. It then acts as a visual indicator as to whether the highlighted cell is locked or unlocked and allows you to quickly change the setting without going into the Ctrl-1 formatting dialogue. I hope that's helpful for a few people :) Andy

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

I like that! Thanks for sharing Andy.

@card1_diy

2 жыл бұрын

That got me confused too. Im gonna practice

@tiongah7690

2 жыл бұрын

that needs macro right?

@wakelingchicken

2 жыл бұрын

No@@tiongah7690 , it doesn't need a macro. In the desktop app, above the menu bar, in the title bar top left, you should see the 'quick access toolbar', and on the right of that is a drop down icon that allows you to customise that toolbar. You simply need to add the 'Lock Cell' button from the 'Home Tab'. Maybe Leila will include this tip in a future video for you :)

@keijo456

2 жыл бұрын

@@wakelingchicken Thank you for the tip!

I can’t like this enough. This is one of the most counterintuitive concepts in Excel. Thanks for breaking it down so simply.

Everything you post about Excel is so relevant to my job role. I just love how you come up with things that make our lives so much easier Leila. Thank you for sharing yet another great tip

I abandoned hope for good Excel tutorials many years ago, they are usually the most terrible and unreliable videos out there, but you, you really did it.

I use locked cells loads, but always untick the "select lock cell option" that way users can't even select the locked cells this avoids that annoying error pop up. And if you use filters, make sure that option is unticked that way users can use the filter even though the cell will be locked

@asianseyesRpretty2

Жыл бұрын

What is lock cells loads?

@balakumaran75

Жыл бұрын

Very nice suggestion

Thank you for teaching us; I watched many of your videos, I admire your sensitivity and the simplicity and fluidity of how you delve into the topic! What a monument to knowledge! Thank you so much!

I hope you are paid very well in some capacity for for your awesome tutorials.....You're methods are to the point, easy to understand and are exactly what I need. Thank you!

@LeilaGharani

27 күн бұрын

I appreciate that!

Thanks for the great video. I've been using the lock cells feature for some time. An added bonus is that when you navigate the protected worksheet using the enter key, all the locked cells are automatically skipped. It's much quicker to move just among the cells that are editable. Cheers!

This guide is what I was thinking about right now, because I have made a worksheet and plan to share it with other colleagues. Thank you Leila ONCE AGAIN.❤️

I totally agree, it took a lot of research to discover how to use the locked check box. That said cell level locking is something that I have frequently used to protect formulas and other critical contents against accidentally being changed.

I make excel calculators a lot and I use this feature but this color coding will save a lot of my time as I used to manually untick the 'locked' for each cell. Thanks for this video.

My top tip for this, instead of the find and replace option, is to use Cell Styles to unlock cells. There’s a cell style called Input. Unfortunately I think MS have dropped the ball slightly on this as it would make sense to have this cell style default as unlocked. But it doesn’t, so you have to right click on it and modify, then tick that you want to include protection in the cell style, and then got to format, and unlock the style in the same way, you can also change its colour here. In this way, when you’re creating your spreadsheet, whenever you come across a cell you know should be unlocked, you can just give it the ‘input’ cell style, rather than making it blue, or yellow or whatever, and it will automatically be unlocked. You can also then use cell styles to quickly change the colour or borders of all your input cells if you need to. I’ve had it many times where I’ve made a big spreadsheet with lots of fairly random input cells, and I’ve lost track of what’s an input cell and what isn’t. And you have to go back through later and unlock them all. Best practice is to highlight then in some colour, even if that’s just default yellow for now. But using this method means you’re highlighting them, unlocking them and leaving the door open to quickly recolour them later if you want to. I just wanted to share that, as I was very pleased with myself when I worked it out. I hope that helps someone.

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@twinkle547

2 жыл бұрын

Hi @Edward Can you know how to lock entire worksheet if it is in unprotected mode with Method not with Event (VBA Code) it will be great help if any body can help me on this Struggling alot and also I am not looking related to Password specifically

@larwhelan21

Жыл бұрын

Great tip 👌

@lyaw8086

Жыл бұрын

@@twinkle547 k

Thank you for explaining things in a very logical and easy manner! I love your tutorial videos on EXCEL!

I have used the lock and unlock function for cells before but this explanation was the best I've seen and definitely helps me. Now I'm going to go change a few things in my current project. 👍👍

This was brilliant! I've been looking for a way to do this for ages and this explained it so clearly and easily!! thank you Leila.

Working in a rural Australia has many challenges, especially when finding quality learning resources. Subscribing to your channel is like access to the ultimate office encyclopedia. Thank you for unscrambling the chaos that sometimes is excel!!

You are saving my days! Additional learning how to select specific formatting.

I learned how to lock/unlock cells before. But I forgot. I was definitely doing it the hard way! This mini tutorial should save a lot of time. Thank you Leila! I learn how to solve a lot of excel problems watching your videos. 🤩

This is perfectly timed for something I am creating for work. What a life-saving (and time-saving) tip! Thank you!!

Leila you are super amazing. I used to manually select the colored cells I wanted my employees to edit. Never used this FIND FORMAT feature. This is way to handy. Thanks a ton for sharing this trick. I have been following all your videos for couple of years now. You are like "one stop" for advanced Excel needs. Kudos :)

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help, Sachin!

I literally just googled this. Your video's are always relevant. Thank you.

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

Agree, the Locked feature was confusing to understand at first. It’s been a few years since I’ve needed to use it and this tip was refreshing. Also, great tip about find coloured cells! Thanks Leila!

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks Sue.

I'm using Excel on daily basis and your lessons are really helpful, thank you miss.

As always, you do a great job in explaining the topic. I'm with you, the whole lock/unlock is a bit confusing but I'm in the know now thanks to you!

Excellent! This has confused me for years but you made the process crystal clear. Very well presented.

@LeilaGharani

24 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

We can add that when protecting the sheet, we can uncheck the box "Select locked cells". And therefore leave only the unlocked cells accessible.😉 Thank you for this lesson.

Aaaaaaww! Gosh.. so simple.. It took me quite a lot of select cells, unlocking and protect/unprotect.. Wow.. you explained it the easiest way.. Super thank you with video.. i love it.. Mabuhay! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 👏👏👏👏👏👏

You always have something new to surprise me! Search by cell color format is new, yet another very useful tutorial. Thanks a lot...

Leila - you are such a champion - thank you for your amazing guidance

I knew how to lock and unlock, but learned something new today that you can use Ctrl + F to search the formatting too!! Thanks Leila, you are the best!!

I have used this feature many times. What I liked about the tutorial is the method your used to select all the cells you needed to unlock. Thanks

Your expertise are great..Thank you for your time and videos

You always simplify stuff. Love it

Always a good idea to protect certain cells. Especially those that have complex formulas. Have a nice day Leila.

You are really amazing @Leila. I will always be glued to your channel. Triple thump up for you my Mentor. Thanks for your Tutorials. Alhamdulillah, they had really transformed me to Pro Excel User.

I struggled a lot to ensure the sheet is locked and other dont input values other than cells meant to, but your video makes it so simple, I am gonna use it all through out my work. Thanks for the tip!

Hi, Leila. It was a great lesson. Thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!

Hi Leila - Great tip, thanks. It has always been one of my bug-bears when handing out excel files to my customers.

Good explanations. I used it since last century 😊 Sometime, I protect with no password, to give opportunity to people to change the structure if they prefer, for example changing the order of the columns, but having the protection prevent any unintentional change. Of course, it is situation where I don't need to aggregate results after.

Use it a lot, normally with the option to only select unlocked cells, but especially the find with format is a cool way to save time I have not seen before, thanks

Oh my goodness! I can't even calculate the amount of time I have killed doing this the hard way. That is a wonderful tip. I've been looking for a faster way to do this very task for a long time. Thanks so much for sharing!

Yes , I know many formulas in excel but this protection was confusing like you mentioned but you cleared it now Thanks 😊

Your timing is impeccable, I will be using these techniques later today.

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

Great Help. Thank you, Leila.

Hi Leila, Each of your tips is fantastic. I always learn something new whenever I watch your videos. Thanks a lot

I think that this is a perfect explanation. Thank you. I always wanted to protect just few cells instead of complete sheet, but I never knew how. Till now. 🙂

Locking of cells finally unlocked :) Thanks a lot Leila.

Thank you for explaining this perfectly!

Yes. This is super helpful. Thank you so much Leila.

wonderful! great explanation, thanks!

Insanely Professional Video! Amazing clarity of information and easy to follow along. I only watched this video once to learn this function. Thank you

quick and simple explanation, thank you.

You have saved me so much time and effort with your videos. Thank you so much. (Also your courses are brilliant!)

Thank you, you explained it very well.

whenever i need help in excel your tutorial is the best to option...thank you!

I was really looking for this Leila. Thank you😊

I too, have found this confusing. Thank you for the understandable description and examples!

Many thanks for your efforts and supports

Perfect timing, this is next on my to do list for a project at work, thank you

You saved my day! Excellent work!🙂

Thanks a lot Leila, i have tried few times to do the same and as you said got confused with lock cells option. This tutorial clarified it

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You explain things well. Thank you.

Great video. Right to the point. Thank you so much!! Exactly what I needed.

You just read my mind.... Thanks ❤️

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😊

Superb video - thank you!

Thank you, again, for your tips. Youre a life saver

Great tip for managing Excel protection

Hi. I actually already knew about locking cells, but I just wanted to thank you for the very informative videos. I adore excel and am quickly becoming the specialist at my job. You have my ideal job. I absolutely adore Excel and if I could do it all day I would!

@LeilaGharani

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Amazing! I always learn something new in your videos! Cheers!

Such a big help. Thank you so much for this.

That was a really smart move! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you. Very helpful and concise.

Leila ♥️ Thanks 😎👍 Just what I was looking for my workbook.

You are the BEST!! Your videos and tutorials are so easy to follow and understand. Thank you.

Thank you! The LOCKED did confuse me before I watched your video. In the past, I never was able to lock cells because I thought the check mark should work. With your method, everything works well now. Thanks!

@LeilaGharani

5 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

Lela, I did it many times and worked, but I did not know how had done 👍😀 but now I really appreciate you and understand...

Thank you so much, it's really helpful

Exactly the info i was looking for! thank you!

very helpful tips... I used to be thiniking I know so much in excel and power bi... but now I have realised ... there are lots of things that I don't know, and there will be lots of things that I will never know... :)

😃 great thank you Leila 🤗

This is amazing and will be so helpful at work tomorrow. Thank you so much!

Thanks-- this was really clear and helpful. You're a great teacher.

Great tutorial: Short, concise and understanding.

It was really helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Really appreciate the help.

Brilliant! I need this in my life

I just learned how to select shaded fields, that's pretty cool. I did learn about the lock cells and lock worksheet years prior on my own. I use it sparingly but it is mainly for shared files. It also does have it's limitations. If it's for just data entry, excellent! Includes copy pasting from other excel documents, then like on of the commenters on here says about it, it can relock cell or if you choose to not allow formatting, may not paste at all. It is great so far for just data entry, just be careful of copy/pasting.

@dgjanes917

2 жыл бұрын

If you save as a macro enabled workbook you gain access to the get.cell formula (no vba required). You can use that to check what the current format of the cell is and compare it against what you expect it to be. What I do is, if the format has changed it gives the user an error message in the calculated cells. All the calculated cells will say "PASTE ERROR" instead of the expected calculations. That way they know right away that they pasted in to a cell when they shouldn't have and can just hit undo and re-input the value without impacting the formatting.

Thank you so much fo r clear guide! I love it!

Thank you, this is helpful!

What a top tip! I just learned how to select the colored cells. Great

Fantastic! Thank you for your help. I was bedeviled by erasing my formulas in cells that I am not supposed to touch. Thank you so much.

Really great! Thank you!!!

As always easy and clear explanation. Thanks

Thank you so much... Very helpful

Love the explanation. Thank you

Wow! I love you! This is so helpful!

THANK YOU!!!! LIFE SAVER