Protected Ranges allows you to select a range of cells and choose which collaborators have permission to edit those cells, and which collaborators should only be able to view those cells.
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What does protecting a range in Google Sheets do?
By protecting ranges in Google Sheets, you can limit what your collaborators can edit. To prevent ranges of your spreadsheet from being accidently modified, protect the ranges. You must give another user permission to edit the whole spreadsheet before you can protect a range.
How do I lock a range in Google Sheets?
Protect, hide, and edit sheets
- Open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.
- Click Data. Protected sheets and ranges.
- Click Add a sheet or range or click an existing protection to edit it.
- To protect a range, click Range.
- Click Set permissions or Change permissions.
- Choose how you want to limit editing:
- Click Save or Done.
What does protect the sheet mean?
To prevent other users from accidentally or deliberately changing, moving, or deleting data in a worksheet, you can lock the cells on your Excel worksheet and then protect the sheet with a password.
What does protecting a range mean?
October 31, 2016 14:05. Follow. Watch How to Protect a Range. Protected Ranges allows you to select a range of cells and choose which collaborators have permission to edit those cells, and which collaborators should only be able to view those cells.
How do I remove protection from Google Sheets?
Click the tab’s drop-down arrow and choose “Protect”. Now the “Protect” sidebar will open ready for you to protect a sheet but you want to “un-protect” so click “Cancel”. Now you will see the protection rule for that sheet and now you click the trash-can icon to remove the protection for that sheet.
How do I password protect a sheet in Google Sheets?
How to Encrypt Data in Google Sheets
- Go back into your Sheet.
- Go to the top navigation and click Protect File.
- From the drop-down, select Encrypt file.
- In the pop-up that appears, enter a new password and click OK.
How do I password protect cells in Google Sheets?
Lock Specific Cells In Google Sheets
- Right-click on the cell that you want to lock.
- Click on Protect range option.
- In the ‘Protected Sheets and ranges’ pane that opens up on the right, click on ‘Add a sheet or range’
- [Optional] Enter a description for the cell you’re locking.
Is there a way to hide tabs from certain viewers in Google Sheets?
Under the “Protected sheets and ranges” dialog box, select “Sheet.” Choose the tab to protect from the drop-down/down arrow (please see the first screenshot below). Click on “Set permissions.” Enable “Restrict who can edit this range” and choose “Only you” from the down arrow.
Sheets: Share with specific people or using a link
- Open the file you want to share (that you own or have edit access to).
- Click Share.
- Enter the email addresses or groups that you want to share with.
- Choose what kind of access you want to give people: Editor, Commenter, or Viewer.
- Click Send.
How do I remove a protected range in Google Sheets?
Protect cells in Google Sheets
Select any of the protected ranges and edit the permissions, or delete the protection by clicking the trash bin icon.
How can I unlock a protected sheet?
On the Home tab, click the Format Cell Font popup launcher. You can also press Ctrl+Shift+F or Ctrl+1. In the Format Cells popup, in the Protection tab, uncheck the Locked box and then click OK. This unlocks all the cells on the worksheet when you protect the worksheet.
How do you protect sheets except certain cells?
Press the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + A to select all the cells of the sheet. Right click and choose Format cells. Go to the Protection tab and uncheck Locked option and click Ok. Now select only the cells or columns, rows that you want to protect.
Is it safe to store passwords in Google Sheets?
Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides documents may not have an option for individual password protection, but they are still protected on Google’s servers. Unless you’ve shared them, other users can’t see your files without your Google Account username and password.
Is Google Sheets secure?
Your content is stored securely
When you create a file on Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides and share it, it is stored securely in our world-class data centers. Data is encrypted in-transit and at-rest. If you choose to access these files offline, we store this info on your device.
Why can’t I protect my Google sheet?
To protect cells/sheets, you need to convert the Excel file to a Google Sheets file. To get a Doc or Sheet version of your file, go to the File menu and select “Save as Google Sheets”. You will be able to protect the sheets/ranges within that new file.
Can you lock individual tabs in Google Sheets?
Protect a Worksheet
Protect individual worksheets in a Google Spreadsheet. To do this, select Tools from the menu and choose Protect sheet. You have the option to set permissions, much like a Google Doc, that will give editing rights to: anyone invited as a collaborator; only you; or a list of collaborators.
It’s possible to link someone directly to a specific tab in your Google Sheet. You do so by first going to the sheet that you want them to view. When you’re on the first page, you’ll see gid=0 at the end of the URL.The problem, of course, is that you still can see other sheets.