Protect Checkbox Resolution For Free

Select the control that you want to protect. For more information, see Select or deselect controls on a worksheet. To prevent a user from moving, sizing, or deleting a control, right-click the selection, and then click Format Control. On the Protection tab, select the Locked check box.

LOCK/UNLOCK Cells in Excel to avoid mistakes - YouTube YouTube Start of suggested clip End of suggested clip Click ok to confirm. Now select the cells you do not want locked. Right click and select formatMoreClick ok to confirm. Now select the cells you do not want locked. Right click and select format cells. This time untick the lock checkbox to allow others to edit the cells you had highlighted.

Conditional formatting is a great way to make checkboxes easier to understand. As an example, data can be made green when a checkbox is checked and red when it is unchecked.

If you want to fix the position of a checkbox in the sheet, for instance at the very top of the sheet, select the Don't move or size with cells option. Now, now matter how many cells, rows or columns you add or delete, the checkbox will stay where you put it.

Right click the checkbox, and then click Format Control. In the Format Control dialog box, switch to the Control tab, click in the Cell link box and select an empty cell on the sheet to which you want to link to the checkbox, or type the cell reference manually: Repeat the above step for other check boxes.

Go to Developer Tab ?> Controls ?> Insert ?> Form Controls ?> Check Box. Click anywhere in the worksheet, and it will insert a checkbox (as shown below). Now to need to link the checkbox to a cell in Excel. To do this, right-click on the checkbox and select Format Control.

On the Protection tab, make sure the Locked check box is cleared. Check boxes are also linked to specific cells in a worksheet. (See the Control tab of the Format Control dialog box.) To unprotect the cell to which the check box is linked, select the cell and choose Cells from the Format menu.