At work, using excel can meet a lot of work needs. Sometimes, when the need is to use formulas, in order to protect others from knowing the formula through which the data is obtained, we have to hide the formula to protect the data. Today I will share with you how to hide formulas in a table.
We select the cell that we want to hide the formula, then right-click, select [Format Cell] in the drop-down box, then we select [Protect] in the prompt box, check [Hide] and click [OK]
Then we click [Review]-[Protect Worksheet] in the toolbar, and then enter the password in the pop-up box, then check [Format Cells], and finally click [OK]. (Here, if you don’t want other people to make other changes to the cell format, you can also uncheck [Set Cell Format], no matter if you don’t check it, you can hide the formula).
After setting, we click the cell with the formula again, and we will find that the formula can no longer be viewed.
If you want to unhide, it is also very simple. We only need to enter the password we just set in [Review] - [Unprotect Worksheet] to cancel the protection of the worksheet, and the hiding effect will disappear.
If you use someone else's excel file and find that it has worksheet protection, or the excel file downloaded from the Internet has worksheet protection, and you forget the excel protection password you set, we can't revoke the protection, except that we can't view the formula, we even Excel files cannot be edited. To solve the password problem, we can try some passwords by ourselves, or use tools to help us solve the problem. For example, the [Remove Restrictions] function in Okayfone EXCEL Decryption Master can help us delete the protection of the worksheet.
