How to lock a cell under if 1 condition is TRUE

hsandeep

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I want to ‘lock’ cell D2 IF H3=1

How to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance.
 

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Before a cell can be locked, you must protect the sheet.
Before protecting the sheet, unlock all the cells you are going to edit.
Try the following code on the events of your sheet. Change in the code "abc" to the password of your sheet.

VBA Code:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
  If Target.CountLarge > 1 Then Exit Sub
  If Target.Address(0, 0) = "H3" Then
    ActiveSheet.Unprotect "abc"
      Range("D2").Locked = Target.Value = 1
    ActiveSheet.Protect "abc"
  End If
End Sub

SHEET EVENT
Right click the tab of the sheet you want this to work, select view code and paste the code into the window that opens up.
 
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Before a cell can be locked, you must protect the sheet.
Before protecting the sheet, unlock all the cells you are going to edit.
Try the following code on the events of your sheet. Change in the code "abc" to the password of your sheet.

VBA Code:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
  If Target.CountLarge > 1 Then Exit Sub
  If Target.Address(0, 0) = "H3" Then
    ActiveSheet.Unprotect "abc"
      Range("D2").Locked = Target.Value = 1
    ActiveSheet.Protect "abc"
  End If
End Sub

SHEET EVENT
Right click the tab of the sheet you want this to work, select view code and paste the code into the window that opens up.
I don't want vba Can it be done using Excel functions?
 
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