You can even combine the protection of those different levels for different effects. Technically this method involves protecting a worksheet and then allowing certain cells to be exempt from that protection. Cell: You can also protect just specific cells on a worksheet from being changed.Worksheet: You can protect the data on individual worksheets from being changed.And you protect the structure of a workbook so that anyone can open it, but they need a password to rearrange, rename, delete, or create new worksheets. You can make the file open as read-only by default so that people have to opt into editing it. You can encrypt it with a password to limit who can even open it. Workbook: You have a few options for protecting a workbook.Protection in Microsoft Excel is password-based and happens at three different levels. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel provides some pretty good tools for preventing people from editing various parts of a workbook.
