Microsoft has added a brand new and essential characteristic to the model of its Excel spreadsheet app made for Apple’s iPad pill. For the primary time, the Excel iPad app now has sheet coverage options.

For individuals who would possibly not know what this option is, sheet coverage is a characteristic in some spreadsheet apps that, when enabled, assists in keeping any of the knowledge that is in a spreadsheet from being modified or deleted. In the precise case of Excel for the iPad, it could actually now be enabled with both the app’s Sheet tab or the Ribbon.

The new model of the app for the iPad we could customers faucet at the Sheet tab with the lock icon. Then, they may be able to faucet at the “Protection…” variety that looks within the floating person interface. Users too can pass to the Ribbon a part of the app after which faucet on Review, adopted through Protection.

The iPad Excel app permits you to faucet at the Pause Sheet Protection way to disable the characteristic, after which you’ll be able to faucet at the Resume Sheet Protection variety to set it again up once more. You too can arrange a password that may wish to be put within the app to head thru those choices with the Manage Sheet Protection variety. It will also be used to make different adjustments on your coverage choices, along side some way so as to add, edit, or take away edit levels. The sheet coverage characteristic is now to be had for individuals who use Excel on iPad with Version 2.90.930.0 or later.

Earlier these days, Microsoft introduced that Apple’s standard Handoff characteristic, which we could customers paintings on a report on one software and stay operating at the identical report when switching to every other software, is now to be had for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint apps for the iPad, iPhone, and Mac gadgets for the primary time.