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.

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

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.