We’ll use a quote from a familiar joke as an introduction to a problem you might encounter in everyday work: how to get the user to enter data only in a predefined cell group? There are several ways to achieve this, and one of the easiest is to format these cells in the desired manner (eg, set a specific background color) and to prevent entry into the cells that are not formatted in a given manner.
With Protect Sheet and Protect Workbook, a user can protect a worksheet or workbook so that only a person who knows the correct password can access them. However, what if we want to protect only part of the worksheet? Also, if more than one user is simultaneously working on the document, is it possible to grant them different access rights? Can the system administrator use domain rights for this purpose? Meet the Allow Users to Edit Ranges option.
At every company there are certain data that should be kept secret. Also, sometimes we do not want everyone to be able to edit the document, especially when it comes to corporate reports that should have a unique form. Since Excel is a tool frequently used for budgets or as a tool for interpreting business reports, it’s important to know how to protect individual worksheet elements, the structure of the workbook, and the workbook as a whole.