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If you enabled sheet protection, you can remove it at any time. (You will recognize active sheet protection by the fact that the icon has a dark color.)

To do so, choose the ribbon command Review | group Protection | Sheet protection again.

The sheet protection is then disabled again.

The protection settings defined in the dialog box of the ribbon tab Home | group Number are now ineffective again. However, Calculate still remembers them. Thus, if you re-enable sheet protection, the same protection settings will become active again.

Tip: If you save a document with sheet protection enabled, sheet protection will be automatically re-enabled the next time the document is opened. If sheet protection is still secured with a password, it can only be disabled with the correct password. This allows you to protect documents against changes by unauthorized persons.