You can embed a PDF file into a cell of an Excel worksheet and then use Excel's security features to lock the object. This allows you to take advantage of both technologies.

Microsoft Excel allows us to represent data uniformly. We can show complex data in the form of charts or tabular format. Suppose you have a list of products you want to share along with the product ...

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.