Google Sheets Protect Cells With Formulas

Google sheets allows you to protect cells or sheets so that certain users cannot edit them.

Google sheets protect cells with formulas. So you can easily protect a range of cells in google sheets and make sure no one messes up your work. Fire up your browser open a google sheet that has cells you want to protect and then select the cells. Then go to the data protected sheets and ranges menu to start protecting these cells. Here are the steps.

While completing a formula simply click a cell or range you want to get a value from and you want to lock or make an absolute reference. The protected sheets and ranges pane appears on the right. Use the data protected sheets and ranges menu option to start protecting specific cells in a google sheet. See the example below for the menu option.

This is a great tool to use if you have a spreadsheet that is used by many people and you want to prevent them from accidentally deleting or typing over complicated formulas or valuable data. Go to data protect sheets and ranges. Continue with the rest of your formula. Press f4 until you get the desired absolute reference combination.

Sometimes it s only a certain set of cells that you want to lock up in a spreadsheet. It will open the protected sheets and ranges pane on the right. In those cases here s how to lock specific cells in google sheets. With the cells selected open the data menu and then click protect sheets and ranges.

First up start off by highlighting a cell or range of cells that you want to protect. Locking formula cells is an excellent way to protect your google sheet s formulas from unauthorized changes.