Imagine spending hours creating a Google Sheet to share with your team, only to find that a team member accidentally deleted an important column, row, cell, or, even worse — an entire sheet.
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That can be frustrating. However, it’s entirely preventable if you lock cells in Google Sheets.
As it turns out, with just a few clicks of a mouse, you can lock cells and entire sheets in Google Sheets — meaning, you and your team can work on the same sheet without hindering the next person from completing their assigned tasks.
In this post, we’ll go over how to lock and unlock cells in Google Sheets.
Table of Contents
- The Benefits of Locking Cells in Google Sheets
- How to Lock Specific Cells in Google Sheets
- How to Lock Cells and Give Editing Permissions to Select Users
- How to Lock an Entire Sheet
- How to Show a Warning but Allow Editing of a Locked Cell
- How to Unlock Cells
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