I can't believe more people don't have this question!
I'd like to take it a step further and ask if there is a way to lock down the editable attributes further when editing multiple features at once. We have many instances where surveyors like to edit a single attribute across many features (such as a status field or date field), but may accidentally edit another attribute (such as notes that should remain unique for each feature). If we could disable editing for some fields when editing multiple features, this would solve the problem.
Anybody from ESRI have some insight to add?