
Excel locks all cells by default, The reason why each cell can still be edited is because no protection is set. If the lower version of Excel cannot freeze the cells with this method, after selecting A1, click "Format" first, then select "Lock Cell", lock A1, then click "Format", and select "Protect Sheet", then click "OK" in the window that opens.ģ. When you double-click on it, you can no longer position the cursor inside it, but double-clicking on other cells, you can do it, indicating that only cell A1 is frozen the procedure is shown in Figure 1:Ģ. Select one of the cells in the table, press Ctrl + A, select the entire table, the current tab is "Home", click "Format", and select "Lock Cell" in the pop-up menu to cancel the default lock for all cells in the entire table select cell A1 to be locked, click "Format" again, select "Protect Sheet" from the pop-up options, open the "Protect Sheet" dialog box, keep the default settings, and click "OK", cell A1 is locked. if you want to lock the cell with double slash header.
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(I) How do you lock a cell in excel(The first locking method)ġ.
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I, How to lock cells in excel(How to freeze cells in excel) If you only need to freeze the cell format(that is, the table structure), that is, you can no longer format the cells(including fixed row height and column width, cannot set font, color, bold, underline, etc.), only allow text to be entered into the cell, the same methods.

The method is the same whether you freeze cells or freeze rows, as long as you select them. You can lock one cell or multiple cells (including only lock the cells with formula) you can freeze one row or column, or multiple rows and columns and you can freeze the entire table.

If you want to lock cells(freeze cells), you can use both Excel content options and shortcut keys in Excel.
