Formulas are one of the most important components of an Excel sheet and as such, deserve–warrant–protection. You don’t want users accidentally changing formulas and impacting the purpose of your work.

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When your spreadsheet has formulas piled on top of formulas, tracking and repairing errors would be agony if it weren’t for Excel’s Precedents and Dependents: cells that are referred to by a formula ...