Restricting Changes By Using Read Only. Excel 2010 Way 1. Protect Workbook structure to prevent unwanted changes.

The second and third groups support restricting state transitions. These standard actions set the value of a field or makes a field read-only or required. Making your document a read-only file means that the document can be read or copied but not modified.
The second and third groups support restricting state transitions.
And depending on where the results of the query will be used you might change the application behavior by returning unexpected results. Attrib -r s drive. Excel 2010 Way 1. If you chose Comments or No Changes Read Only you can define exceptions for parts of the document.