Google has added some new features on their Google Docs platform.

Users of Google Spreadsheets can now lock cells from editing by collaborators.

This feature has been added to Named Ranges functionality. Google said:

To get started with Protected Ranges in a shared spreadsheet, highlight the cells you’d like to protect, right-click, and choose Name and protect range from the menu.

Google added about some other enhancements that have been rolled out on Spreadsheets component:

Along with the arrival of protected ranges, you can now add colors and patterns when you apply cell borders in Google spreadsheets. We also updated find and replace to make it possible to search using patterns (also called regular expressions). For example, “^[A-Z]+” will find all the cells that start with uppercase letters.