This is quite a pain. You have to programmatically disable the Cut command
on all the menus and toolbars it appears on and kill the shortcuts like
Ctrl-x. If you want an example email me.

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Jim
"Homer Jones" <Homer wrote in message
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|I have a template where there are certain cell that numeric data is entered
| and sumed. The cell that contains the sum formula is protected. How do I
| disable usersfrom cutting the contains of the unprotected cells were data
is
| entered. I need to do this because if they "cut and paste" is corrupts
the
| formula that sums the cells. I'm fairly good with excel but can't figure
| this out and am not even sure that it is possible to do.