How to disable editing of individual cells in a table sheet?

Question

excel

Office 2016. For some reason, setting protection on a sheet makes it possible to either prohibit editing the entire sheet or remove the prohibition of the entire sheet. Like in old offices it was possible to protect a separate cell?

Answer 1

For cells that do not need to be protected, you should uncheck the "Locked" checkbox in the properties on the last tab "Protection", or as it will be in Russian.