I needed to enter information into many rows of widely dispersed columns, like A, Q, BD, BJ, CF, etc. (I'm sure you get the idea.) I was right-arrowing along and I was thinking: if I were in Word, I'd just set some tabs or bookmarks to move around quickly. What is the equivalent in Excel? A little delving into the Help files let me know that it's done like this:
Figure 1. The Protection tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
Figure 2. The Protect Sheet dialog box.
That's it! Excel will only let you go to cells that are still editable, and those are the ones for which you cleared the Lock property before you protected the sheet. Enjoy tabbing to the places on your worksheet that you need to.
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2020-11-15 10:15:56
JMJ
Yes, I agree with JC: I certainly would have hidden the useless columns...
2020-11-02 10:44:10
JC
How about temporarily hiding columns that don't need data entry?
2020-10-31 19:06:10
Peter
A good and likely useful trick.
Depending on the nature of the model, you could just have a data entry tab and refer to the data entry cells by formula. This gives you the opportunity to modify the values as well, say, from imperial to metric or perhaps apply data validation.
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