protecting cells in a table

[DeniseD]

I know that in older version of WORD you were able to protect specific cells
withing a table - for the life of me I cannot find any feature for this in
the new version of WORD. Help!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It has never been possible to do this in Word (perhaps you're thinking of
Excel?), but you can use form fields in certain cells and protect the rest
of the document (or section).