To edit a spreadsheet using Excel on your Mac computer. Begin with your spreadsheet open in Excel 2016 for Mac on your computer. If the file is in read-only mode, enable editing. And, if you see a security warning, choose Enable Content.
Excel for Office 365 for Mac Excel 2019 for Mac Excel 2016 for Mac To prevent a user from accidentally or deliberately changing, moving, or deleting important data, you can lock cells and protect them. Locking cells takes two steps: adding the Lock formatting to the cells, and then turning on protection of the sheet. To lock cells. Select the cells that you want to lock. On the Format menu, click Cells, or press + 1. Click the Protection tab, and then make sure that the Locked check box is selected.
Note: The password is optional. If you do not supply a password, any user can unprotect the sheet and change what was protected. If you do enter a password, make sure that you choose a password that is easy to remember, or write it down and keep it in a safe place. If you lose the password, you can't access the protected parts on the sheet.
If you don't want people to select locked cells, click to clear the Select locked cells check box. If you want people to be able to select and fill out unlocked cells, click to select Select unlocked cells. Before you click OK to finish, you might want people to do other things to the locked cells, like select them or format them. If so, under Allow users of this sheet to, choose the elements that you want people to be able to select or change. To unlock cells. You may need to temporarily turn off protection so that you can unlock cells. On the Review tab, click Unprotect Sheet or Unprotect Workbook.
Then type the password. Select the cells that you want to unlock. Then click to clear the Locked check box so that it is not selected.
If there are other cells that still need to be locked, on the Review tab, click Protect Sheet or Protect Workbook. Then type a password for the sheet, and verify it by typing it again.
You may find that the numbers displayed in your Volatility Backup XLS do not match the numbers in Corporate Focus. This mis-display of numbers is due to the “Protected View” setting within Microsoft Excel. All Microsoft Office files downloaded from the Internet (and Corporate Focus) are “blocked” by default. There are several ways to get around this issue: (Recommended) The simplest and most secure method to get around this issue is to simply click the Enable Editing button, on a per-document basis, when you open an Excel (or other Microsoft office) file that has been downloaded. (NOT Recommended) Alternatively, you can choose to disable the Protected View feature within Excel so that you no longer recieve the warning upon opening any Excel file that has been downloaded. In Excel go to File Options Trust Center Trust Center Settings Protected View, and then uncheck Enabled Protected View for files originating from the Internet. There is also, in Trust Center Settings, a Macro Setting that you can use to Enable All Macros by default.
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Be aware that enabling this feature allows potentially dangerous code to run. If either of these Trust Center settings are changed, you need to be very careful about the Excel files that get opened.