I think these are smart tags, an annoying feature put in by MSFT to highlight
various attributes of cells.

See this on how to remove them:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...65862ea497fc5d

Dave
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Brevity is the soul of wit.


" wrote:

Hi

A few cells in a spreadsheet (that is being used as an address book)
have a single red star each on the left side of the cell.

I cannot delete these red starts. If I copy the cell, the new cell also
has the red star.

I am using Excel 2002.

Can anyone advise why these red stars are appearing in some of the
cells?

Thanks
Bob