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Bookmark or Share- Lock or unlock specific areas of a protected worksheetYou can lock only specific cells and ranges before you protect the worksheet and, optionally, enable specific users to edit only in specific ranges of a protected sheet. Follow these steps: On the Review tab, select Unprotect Sheet (in the Protect group). Select Protect Sheet to change to Unprotect Sheet when a worksheet is protected.
- Turn off Scroll Lock - Microsoft SupportIf your computer does not have a Scroll Lock key, do one of the following: If your keyboard does not have a Scroll Lock key, on your computer, click Start > Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard. Click the On-Screen keyboard button to turn it on. When the on-screen keyboard appears on your screen, click the ScrLk button.
- Excel not responding, hangs, freezes or stops workingYou can safe mode troubleshoot in one of two ways: The Microsoft Excel check troubleshooter fully automates the safe mode isolation process to let you know if the problem is due to add-ins, files in startup folders, or toolbar settings. The troubleshooter will, in most cases, modify the registry and move files from startup folders used by Excel.
- Protect a worksheet - Microsoft SupportTo lock your file so that other users can’t open it, see Protect an Excel file. To prevent users from adding, modifying, moving, copying, or hiding/unhiding sheets within a workbook, see Protect a workbook. To know the difference between protecting your Excel file, workbook, or a worksheet see Protection and security in Excel.
- Excel file is locked for editing - Microsoft SupportYou are trying to open an Excel file and you get a message about the file being locked. Sometimes the file is locked by another user, and other times the "another user" is actually you. If you have locked the file yourself, it might be because the file is open on a different device, or the previous instance of the file didn't close properly.
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