David McRitchie has information on this problem, starting about half way
down the following page:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ghosting.txt

frewil wrote:
I try to enter a new entry on worksheet and the cells turn blue like I'm
trying to format and lock up the page this has just started happening to the
last 4 worksheets I've started. What am I doing incorectely?


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