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.

The ability to lock cells or elements of Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, but not the full sheet, allows maximum customization and control of a project.

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

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 ...

To lock these numeric values, you need to delete the formula without deleting the calculated results. This is accomplished using Excel's copy and paste feature.

There is actually an easy way to lock in parts of your formula so only the correct parameters change. Watch to learn how to use the $ sign to lock in formulas.