Protect sheet / lock cells?

Is it possible to protect or lock certain cells in Numbers so that other users cannot change my data? I want users to be able to input data in some cells BUT not have access to other cells.
Thank you for your time!

Do you know of any apps for iPad that allow users to protect or lock certain cells within a spreadsheet?
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Protecting or Locking Cells with a formula

Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to lock a formula in place but still continue working with the rest of the document.

COXYPT,
Welcome to Numbers,
This is a very often asked question and sorry, the answer is no. However, take a look at the recent thread below for an interesting workaround:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6983825&#6983825
pw

Protecting/Locking cells

I use excel to make forms. I like to lock a cell that has a descriptive so that the user can just tab thru to to cells that require their imput. I am thrilled with all the customization Numbers will give me for the look of the these forms. But I can not find anything in the documentaion about locking cells or protecting the sheet. Does anyone one know if this exists? I would love to put Excel away (as I have with Wrok) and use Numbers instead.

Hi Msredhd,
Welcome to Numbers discussions.
At present locking cells and locking the entire work sheet isn't supported. Please send a message to the Numbers team. Click Numbers then Provide Numbers Feedback. The more of us that request it the more likely it will be offered.
Sincerely,
RicD

EPM for Excel question : Can't lock cell after protect worksheet

Dear experts,
I need to set lock and color for some dimension, I use the format and set the ALL|Lock, but it's not work, but if I set the Style, or ALL|Style, it can lock after protect worksheet, but color will missing, how can I show the color and lock?
best regards
Evans.

Hi Evans,
You are doing something incorrect...
Just tested:
On the EPMFormattingSheet:
Hierarchy Level Formatting - only enabled
Priority to Row Format Set
Default Format for Row - Apply
Data cell for Default Format formatted as grey
Default Format Use set to All
EPM->Lock Selected Cells applied to the grey Data cell
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All cells selected and formatted as Locked - NO
Report refreshed - data area is formatted grey and locked is set to YES.
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SmartView issue with Excel protected sheets

Hi,
I'm facing an issue working with SmartView and Excel protected sheet.
When a try to refresh data SmartView get error "One or more sheet(s) in the workbook are protected. Unprotect the sheets and try the operation again".
Sheet layout is composed as:
- account in row
- period, scenario and version in column
- other dimension in point of view.
The goal of sheet protection is restrict on Excel side the set of cell available for user input and avoid the user add more account in row.
Is there a workaround to use SmartView work with protected sheet or the only way is unprotect it?
Any suggestion is really appreciated.
The system configuration is:
WindowsXP SP3
Excel 2007
SmartView 11.1.2.1.00
Regards

No, sorry Smart View has no access to write to the cell of a protected sheet. If you are skilled in VBA you could write a routine that unprotects your sheet does the SV operation and then re-protects. This may require you to hard code your protection password in code so I am not sure if this will work for you. Excel sheet protection lock the user and programs from updates so there is not much that can be done.

How do i lock cells in numbers

How do I lock cells in Numbers? I'm trying to create a spread sheet that will have unused cells and I want to lock them so my associates don't accidentally fill them in and cause the finished product to look muddled.

Wayne,
I previously could lock tables in my Numbers tables in my Spreadsheets by tapping the top left corner and it would show up as an option to lock it. As of Numbers 2.0 (noticed today), I get the option to unlock tables, but not to relock them after making the corrections.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!

How to lock cells in BPC

Hi,
I am developing a BPC solution for client. I have a requirement to lock certain cells so that user is not able to enter/change any values in these cells. I don't want to lock the entire sheet. Please advise if you've resolved similar requirement.
Thanks,
Raman

Hi,
I'd also need to use Excel's data validation feature in a BPC input schedule--not to lock specific cells from user input, as in this example, but to allow users only to choose from a list of values.
Unfortunately, validation is not copied in data cells when expanding. All the rest is copied--formats, values, formulas. Only validation seems to have this problem.
What should I do to have validation being copied during expansion?
I am on BPC NW 7.5.
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Davide
* UPDATE
I've solved this issue. The solution is described here:
http://scn.sap.com/thread/3209213
VaraPrasadraju Potturi wrote:
Hi,
Try Excel Data Validation to lock cells from editing.
eg: Only ACTUAL cols has to be locked.
     A     B     C     D
1     ACTUAL     ACTUAL     BUDGET BUDGET
2
3
4
Step 1:
   Select cell A2
Step 2:
On the Data menu, click Validation. From Settings tab select Custom as Allow and maintain Formula as =IF(A1="ACTUAL",0,1)
Step 3:
Goto Error Alert tab, Select style as Stop give title as Error and Error message as "ACTUAL Data cannot be changed"
Step 4:
   Click OK.
If Expansion is ON in your report/input schedule just maintain validation as above in first data cell and select Expand all to get copied into remaining all data cells .
hope it helps...
regards,
Raju
Message was edited by: Davide Cavallari

Smartview Problem with Protected Sheets

Hello,
We use Hyperion Smart View in our company and discovered a problem while using protected excel sheets while the addin is active. Excel asks for the password but doesnt accept it even if it is the right password. If we disable the addin the problem disappears. Has somebody else such a problem ?
Has somebody a solution or a workaround ?
Thanks for the help

This issue was logged under Bug 6591401 - When Smart View is active and the worksheet is protected, the following error message is encountered ''Drawing Objects in one or more sheet(s) in the workbook are protected. Please unprotect them and try to save again.'' However, Bug 6591401 has been closed as not a defect.
The following is an explanation of how Smart View handles protected cells and a workaround for this issue:
Smart View needs some place to store it's own metadata within the Excel spreadsheet and it has been using a certain non-obtrusive object for the same. In versions 9.2 and prior, Smart View attempted to unprotect the Excel worksheets to be able to write it's metadata. That led to unexpected behavior when there were passwords used with the protection. This was fixed in 9.3.1.1.2 to make Smart View elegantly honor the spreadsheet protection and not touch objects which are specified as out of bounds by the user. However, when a spreadsheet is protected, this object can become inaccessible to Smart View, after which even a simple save operation cannot go through. In that sense, the current behavior is indeed the correct behavior, where the user placed restriction is honored correctly. The next question will be how can customers then work with protected sheets.
While protecting a worksheet, the following dialog appears which is where the user will have to establish what kind of operations will be allowed on this worksheet. By default the top two options are the only ones that come pre-selected. Just allowing these two options is not sufficient for Smart View to be able to work with the worksheet.
What also needs to be enabled is the option for "Edit Objects" which appears towards the end of the list. It is this option that helps Smart View to be able to persist it's own metadata within the worksheet in a non-obtrusive fashion. The guidance to all Smart View users should be to start enabling this option too, if they choose to apply worksheet protection.
Noel

Locking Cells in Numbers (Almost!)

While there's no real way to lock cells in the current version of Numbers, I put a little trick in place that at least keeps people from clicking on the cells to edit them (they can still move into the cells with the arrow keys).
1. Use the menu Insert > Shape > Rectangle and then position the shape so it covers the cells you want to "protect."
2. Open the Inspector and go to the Graphic tab and make sure Color Fill is chosen. The rectangle should be hiding your cells. Now use the slide at the bottom of the Inspector and set the Opacity to 0% so your cells show through.
3. Under the Arrange menu choose Lock to keep the rectangle from moving.
Now when people click on the cells they're actually clicking on the invisible rectangle and the cells don't get selected.
Like I said, it's not what we'd all like, but it gets us part way there -- if it's useful for you, you're welcome. =:)
Jay Jennings

John and Jay,
This is a very common complaint and perhaps you've already done this: but if not, be sure to go to Menu: Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback. The more requests for a certain feature the Numbers techs get, the more likely they are to include it in the next upgrade.
pw

Tab past locked cells in numbers?

does anyone know if you can lock individual cells in numbers? i need to be able to navigate from unlocked cell to unlocked cell avoiding all locked cells.
it's easy in excel, we use complex vlookup formulas that return information to other cells and need to protect those formula cells from accidental deletion. protecting cells is also a nice way to limit tabbed navigation to unprotected cells only.
does anyone know if i can do this with numbers, can't seem to find anything that suggest it can do it.
thanks...

Apparently cell locking is not supported. From Macworld's review:
"There are also quite a few power user features missing from Numbers, such as custom number formats, pivot tables, cell naming, *cell locking*, password protection, splitting windows, and text orientation within a cell, among others."
http://www.macworld.com/2007/08/reviews/numbers08/index.php

LOCKING CELLS IN "NUMBERS"

I am new to Apple and am working in a spreadsheet in 'Numbers" I have tried to lock cells and tables and spreadsheets. The solution provided by "Help" does not work as the "Arrange - Lock" function is greyed out. It seems odd that there are explanations within Help that do not work. What am I doing wrong?

Chris2929 wrote:
Where do I find it?
Chris,
Your post has been moved to the proper discussion area. For future reference, go to All Content/Communities > iWork.
Numbers, like the other iWork apps, has a great free User Guide. You can download if from the Help menu of Numbers.
You will find that a Table can be locked, but a smaller portion of a table can't be locked. Since you can have manu tables per sheet, the best thing to do is to put those things that need to be locked in separate tables from the things that can't be locked.
Arrange > Lock
Jerry

Why does data validation not disappear immediately on protected sheet, bug?

I have provided a link to a workbook.
Cell A1 contains data validation. The macro contains one sub that removes the data validation from Cell A1. However, the data validation won't be removed until you first run the macro and then click on another cell and then click on A1 again.
However, if the sheet was not protected, data validation would get removed immediately by the macro, without the need to navigate to a different cell.
Why is it like this? Is this a bug?
Workbook with data validation in A1 of protected sheet and a macro to remove it

Hi JP3O,
Base on my test in Office professional Plus 2013 (15.0.4569.1506), it works fine.
Check the worksheet is protected
Select A1, the dropdown icon will display
Run/Debug the macro, the dropdown icon will be disappeared.
What’s the version of your Office? Could you reproduce that issue in other machine?
Regards
Starain
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Lock cell in numbers

Hi -
I am using iWork09 - Is there a way to lock cells in numbers (calulated cells for eg), this in order to protect a user from inadvertently removing links, references etc ?
many thanks

x,
In Numbers we may lock an entire table, but not selected cells. The best way to accomplish your objective is to place all your calculations in one locked table and your inputs in another, unlocked, table.
Jerry

How can I lock cells?

Many solutions cannot be done effectively without the ability to lock cells from entry. What am i missing?

Hi artysan,
I don't know what you want as a response here. I used Excel briefly and long ago so I don't have certain expectaions of Numbers. I do believe Excel is a more high-powered program but I have never been stuck not being able to do something. Applescript to refresh my popups!
There are somethings in Numbers that will be much easier and others will require workarounds. if you want Numbers to work like Excel you will be hearing more of, "No, you can't do that in Numbers." I think the truth is more like, "No you can't do it that way in Numbers."
I have no great fondness for nested Ifs. Lookup tables cover those for me and all those values are tucked away on their own sheet.
I don't know if any of this is helpful. Good Luck!
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