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Vicki has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Protecting data

In the older version of excel you could protect parts of or all of a spreadsheet. I may be being dozy but I can't seem to find how to do this on the new version.
I have created linked sheets (timesheets actually) which works by - weekly sheets link to a period sheet and that in turn is linked into a valuation sheet. I need to protect the sheets leaving only the cells (which could be columns or rows or groups of cells) that others can input to - thereby protecting my calculations.

Please help

RE: Protecting data

It's Ok I worked it out and it is extremely long-winded process in relation to the previous version. I also worked out that as I had a lot of these to change (5 sheets per period X 13 periods + 1 valuation sheet) I recorded a macro to reduce the effort!

RE: Protecting data

Hi Vicki,

Sorry it has taken a while to look at your question. We have been swamped lately!

I'm glad you solved your issue. Thanks for posting your solution. This will help your fellow delegates too!

Have a great Easter.

Regards, Rich

Excel tip:

Use shortcut keys to select rows or columns

Most users use the mouse to select rows or columns. It may be more convenient to use keyboard shortcuts to do that.

The shortcut key combination to select an entire row is Shift+Spacebar.

The shortcut key combination to select an entire column is Ctrl+Spacebar.

These are pretty easy to remember as the spacebar looks like a long row (or column if you're looking at it sideways). Remember that Ctrl, beginning with C, selects columns and Shift, by a process of elimination, the rows.

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