Protect Workbook
Protect Workbook helps you lock a workbook’s overall structure to prevent unauthorized sheet-level changes. It provides the tools you need to control structural actions with a password, making your work more efficient and helping you accomplish tasks with ease. With Protect Workbook, you can lock sheet adding, deleting, moving, renaming, and hiding, optionally lock window size and position, save the file for protection to take effect, and remove protection later by entering the password. It also works separately from Protect Sheet, so cell content can still be edited unless sheet protection is set separately. Whether you're safeguarding workbook structure, allowing cell editing while blocking structural changes, or protecting only structure without locking the window, Protect Workbook helps you stay productive and complete tasks efficiently. Choose the documentation below that best matches your needs to learn more.