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 editing 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.
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What is meant by Allow Edit Ranges in Excel?
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.
