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How to lock formulas in Excel Unlock all cells in the worksheet. For starters, unlock all of the cells on your worksheet. ... Select the formulas you want to lock. Select the cells with the formulas you want to lock. ... Lock cells with formulas. Now, go to lock the selected cells with formulas. ... Protect the worksheet.

The SORT function sorts the contents of a range or array. In this example, we're sorting by Region, Sales Rep, and Product individually with =SORT(A2:A17), copied across cells F2, H2, and J2.

If you want to maintain the original cell reference when you copy it, you "lock" it by putting a dollar sign ($) before the cell and column references. For example, when you copy the formula =$A$2+$B$2 from C2 to D2, the formula stays exactly the same. This is an absolute reference.

The formula, =SORT(B15:F23, 2, 1, FALSE) translates in English to: Sort the data in cells B15:F23, based on the second column, in ascending order, sorted by row.

There are two ways. Either nest the text within quotes?as in ?Part? 2356 ?or put a forward slash in front of the number?as in Part /2356 . Either of those symbols?the quotes or the slash?tells Excel to ignore the text in its calculation and sort only by number.

Sort sees the sheet reference and decides, wrongly, that it isn't a reference to a cell on the same row within the data that is being sorted, so it treats it like a reference to a cell outside the area being sorted and moves the formula unchanged along with the item to its left.

Absolute references refer to the specific column and row of a cell, which means the cell stays constant in the formula wherever you apply the formula. Absolute references keep cells constant. Formulas often use an absolute reference to refer to a specific value for multiple calculations.