There are times when you see something new and immediately know what it means. That’s what happened to me when I opened a file from a colleague and realized the padlock icon on the worksheet tab meant that the worksheet was protected. I was right.
Since I had opened this file in Excel 2011 (Mac) I immediately wondered if the Excel 2010 Window’s version had the same feature.
That would be a no.
It sure is nice to know that a worksheet is protected beforehand, instead of finding out by trial and error that a good number of Ribbon items are grayed out and not functional. It seems in Excel 2010 there is no real overt clue that a worksheet is protected.
Too bad. I like the intuitively obvious lock icon on the worksheet tab.
Maybe they’ll include this nice little feature when they program the next Windows version of Excel.
Wow, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t work with Excel 2011, and I agree with you, this would be a great feature in any version. It kind of makes me jealous.
I find this icon very unpleasant.
@stephane I’m curious as to why you find the icon unpleasant.