Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.

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.

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.

When you’re working on an Excel worksheet with complex formulas, the last thing you want is to accidentally delete a formula or set of data and completely change the output. Fortunately, you can ...