Allow Users To Edit Ranges In Excel

Allowing users to edit ranges. You may want to give different users the permission to edit different parts of the worksheet. To do this, simply follow these steps. 1) Click on “Tools,” “Protection,” and “Allow users to edit ranges.” 2) Click on “New” in the dialog box. 3) Name the range in the “Title” box. In the Allow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box, click Protect Sheet. In the Allow all users of this worksheet to list, select the elements that you want users to be able to change. More information about the worksheet elements. The Allow Users to Edit Ranges option was created because it is not always enough to protect the password table. Sometimes it is necessary to protect certain parts of it, then grant different users (from purchase, sales, accounting, etc.) permission to update them. Excel, among other things, allows granting access permissions based on domain. As shown in the following figure, I allow user Emi to edit ranges of column I. As the same as step 2, I allow user Steve to edit ranges of column K. After configuring permission, apply the setting and protect the sheet. Put this file to network. I (User: Emi) cannot edit other cells without permissions. Try setting several 'Allow users to edit ranges - one for each of the columns where user can edit ie excluding the protected cells. I cannot see why there should be an issue and do not remember having the problem when using 2007. Just remember to protect the sheet and save then reopen the file.

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Summary

In Microsoft Excel 2002 and in later versions of Excel, you can now use passwords to protect specific ranges in your worksheets. This is a change from earlier versions of Excel, in which one password applies to the entire worksheet, which might have several protected ranges. In addition, if you use Windows 2000, you can apply group-level passwords and user-level passwords to different ranges.

The features in Microsoft Excel that are related to hiding data and protecting worksheets and workbooks with passwords are not intended to be mechanisms for securing data or protecting confidential information in Excel. You can use these features to present information more clearly by hiding data or formulas that might confuse some users. These features also help prevent other users from making accidental changes to data.

Excel does not encrypt data that is hidden or locked in a workbook. With enough time, users can obtain and modify all the data in a workbook, as long as they have access to it. To help prevent modification of data and to help protect confidential information, limit access to any Excel files that contain such information by storing them in locations available only to authorized users.

Note

This article describes how to enable specific collaboration scenarios to function correctly in collaboration environments that do not include users who have malicious intent. You cannot enable strong encryption for a file by using password protection. To protect your document or file from a user who has malicious intent, you can restrict permission by using Information Rights Management (IRM).

More Information

How to apply different passwords

To apply different passwords to two ranges in a worksheet, follow these steps:

Start Excel, and then open a blank workbook.
On the Tools menu, point to Protection, and then click Allow Users to Edit Ranges.
Note
In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, click Allow Users to Edit Ranges in the Changes group on the Review tab.
In the Allow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box, click New.
In the New Range dialog box, click the Collapse Dialog button. Select the range B2:B6, and then click the Collapse Dialog button again.
In the Range password box, type rangeone, click OK, then type it again in the Confirm Password dialog box, and then click OK.
Repeat steps 3 through 5, selecting the range D2:D6 and typing rangetwoas the password for that range.
In the Allow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box, click Protect sheet. In the Password to unprotect sheet box, type ranger, and then click OK. When prompted, retype the password, and then click OK.
Select cell B3, and then start to type Dataone.
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When you type D, the Unlock Range dialog box appears.
Type rangeone in the Enter the password to change this cell box, and then click OK.
You can now enter data in cell B3 and in any other cell in the range B2:B6, but you cannot enter data in any of the cells D2:D6 without first providing the correct password for that range.

The range that you protect with a password does not have to be made of adjacent cells. If you want the ranges B2:B6 and D2:D6 to share a password, you can select B2:B6 as described in step 4 earlier in this article, type a comma in the New Range dialog box, and then select the range D2:D6 before you assign the password.

When you apply different passwords to separate ranges in this way, a range that has been unlocked remains unlocked until the workbook is closed. When you unlock another range, you do not relock the first range. Likewise, when you save a workbook, you do not relock a range.

You can use existing range names to identify cells that are to be protected with passwords, but if you do, Excel converts any relative references in the existing name definitions to absolute references. Because this may not give you the results you intended, it is better to use the Collapse Dialog button to select the cells, as described earlier in this article.

How to apply group-level passwords and user-level passwords

If you use Windows 2000 (but not other versions of Windows), you can assign different permissions to various individual users or groups of users. When you do this, permitted users can edit the protected ranges without needing to type passwords, and other users can still edit the ranges as long as they can supply the correct password.

To apply group-level protection to a worksheet, follow these steps:

Start Excel, and then open a blank worksheet.
On the Tools menu, point to Protection, and then click Allow Users to Edit Ranges.
Note
If you are running Excel 2007, click Allow Users to Edit Ranges in the Changes group on the Review menu.
In the Allow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box, click New.
In the New Range dialog box, click Collapse Dialog, select the range B2:B6, and then click Collapse Dialog again.
In the Range password box, type rangeone, and then click OK twice. When prompted, retype the password.
Repeat steps 3 through 5, selecting the range D2:D6 and typing rangetwo as the password for that range.
In the Allow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box, click Permissions, and then click Add in the Permissions for Range2 dialog box.
In the Select Users or Groups dialog box, type Everyone, and then click OK.
Click OK in the Permissions for Range2 dialog box.
In theAllow Users to Edit Ranges dialog box, click Protect sheet, type ranger in the Password to unprotect sheet box, and then click OK twice. When prompted, retype the password.
Select cell B3, and then start to type Dataone. A password is still required. Click Cancel in the Unlock Range dialog box.
Select cell D3, and then type Datatwo.
No password is required.

Note

You must use Windows 2000 in order to assign permissions to groups or individuals as described earlier in this article, but after you have done so, those permissions are recognized when the worksheets are edited on computers that use Microsoft Windows NT. Windows NT does not enable you to assign or modify the permissions.

If you apply group permissions or user permissions, and then open the workbook in Excel 2002 on a Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition-based computer or Microsoft Windows 98-based computer, the group permissions or user permissions are ignored, but different passwords for different ranges are recognized.

How to change passwords

To change the password for a range, follow these steps:

Start Excel, and then open the workbook.
On the Tools menu, point to Protection, and then click Unprotect Sheet.
Note
In Excel 2007, click Unprotect Sheet in the Changes group on the Review tab.
If prompted type the worksheet password, and then click OK.
On the Tools menu, point to Protection, and then click Allow Users to Edit Ranges.
Note
In Excel 2007, click Allow Users to Edit Ranges in the Changes group on the Review tab.
Click a range in the list, and then click Modify.
Click Password.
Type the new password in the New password box, and then retype the new password in the Confirm new password box.
Click OK, and then click OK.
To change the password for another range, repeat steps 3 through 6. Otherwise, click Protect Sheet.
Type the worksheet password in the Password to unprotect sheet box.
Click OK, retype the worksheet password to confirm it, and then click OK.

Important

Note these aspects of applying passwords and group-level permissions to specific ranges:

Excel 2003 runs only on Microsoft Windows XP and on Microsoft Windows 2000.
When a workbook with protected ranges is opened in Excel 2002 on a Windows XP-based computer, on a Windows 2000-based computer, or on a Microsoft Windows NT-based computer, the worksheet range and group protection are the same as they are in Excel 2003.
When a workbook with protected ranges is opened in Excel 2002 on a Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition-based computer or on a Microsoft Windows 98-based computer, ranges with user-level and group-level permissions require the range password.

More information

For more information about the Microsoft Office features that help enable collaboration, see Description of Office features that are intended to enable collaboration and that are not intended to increase security.

Giving full, partial, or no permission to edit the content of the selected range in a worksheet and protecting the rest of the worksheet completely with a password is called Allow Edit Ranges.

If you want to give a password for the entire worksheet and also give a password to a range of your choice without editing any subject to allow edit ranges, you can give the password to any user you trust to edit the range. To do all these, carefully follow the steps given below.

Method-1: Allow Users to Edit Ranges:

On the “Review” tab, in the Protect group, click “Allow Edit Ranges” to open a dialogue box
Then click “New” on the dialogue box

Now type the range title in the “Title” box and click up arrow of the “Refers to cells” as in the picture below

Select the new range and click down arrow

Now type the range password in the range password box and click OK (When you click OK, a confirmation password dialogue box will open)

Again reenter password to confirm and click OK

If you want to protect or allow editing another range click on the “New” and follow the same steps explained above

If you want to modify any range that you have protected by password, click “Modify” and change the password and range name

If you want to delete any range that you have protected by password, click “Delete”

After completing the steps above the picture, now protect worksheet by entering the password. to do so click the “Protect Sheet” to open another dialogue box.

Now enter password in the “Password to unprotect sheet” box
Check the box of any option you want to allow users to edit range under “Allow all users of this worksheet to:” and click OK to open a confirm password dialogue box

Now reenter password to confirm it and click OK.

Method-2: Allow to Edit Ranges:

In this method of allow users to edit ranges, a user is fully allowed to edit ranges without entering a password. But a user may partially or not allow to edit the worksheet. It depends on the options you have selected.

Select the range that you want to allow users to edit range
Right click on the selected range
Click format cells

On the Format Cells dialogue box, click “Protection” and untick the “Locked” and click OK

Now go to the review tab and click “Protect Sheet“
Enter password to worksheet in “Password to unprotect sheet” box and tick or untick different options to allow or disallow users to enter data in a worksheet (except the selected range), then click OK to open a dialogue box
Again enter password to confirm and click OK.