You can stop or prevent users from editing directly in cells in Excel. You have to lock and protect Cells in Excel by following these steps.

Locking cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is among the most commonly used functions. Here’s a guide on how to lock cells in Excel.

Safeguard your Excel worksheets from accidentally deleting formulas or data sets by locking important cells, while leaving the rest of the worksheet editable.

Here is a tutorial to lock or hide only the formula cells in an Excel workbook. You can also lock formulas in all worksheets in a workbook.

In Microsoft Excel, each cell is locked automatically. In enabling protection of a spreadsheet, it will often be faster to unlock everything and then re-enable the lock on chosen cells.