You can do it in two steps:
- Copy and paste values.
- Delete the original cell.
This way the format will remain unaltered.

Hope this helps,
Miguel.

"voyage2000UK" wrote:

I made an Excel chessboard. I play chess on it though email and send
the excel sheet as an attachment. Moves are made by cut and pasting
the cells. It works good except for two things. One, I always have to
go back and check the boarders of the cell that was cut. The boarders
don't always stay intact. Two, the chessboard has both white and gray
squares. When I cut and paste from a gray to a white square, the color
follows. Any help out there?

Basically, I need to save the board as a template. Unfortunately, the
template changes when a move is made. How do I make a template that
doesn't change when I cut and paste in new data?

Thanks, John