Here is a tutorial to lock or hide only the formula cells in an Excel workbook. You can also lock formulas in all worksheets in a workbook.

You worked hard to put that Excel sheet together, now protect it from unintended damage.

The good news is that it’s easy to protect and hide Excel formulas. I’ll show you how to do so in this article. I’m using Office 365’s Excel 2016 (desktop) on a Windows 10 64-bit system.

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

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 ...

A. Try using Excel’s Protection ; it can hide underlying formulas and protect them from any attempted change. Here’s how it works: Before you enable Protection be sure to format the affected cells ...

Use Excel's "Freeze Panes" functionality to lock rows or columns in place. Use Excel sort features to organize data in alphabetical or numerical order.