This is one of the many problems with merged cells.

Excel doesn't know what to do with them.

I suppose there is a logical and technical reason but I haven't figured it
out.

My advice............avoid merged cells unless for presentation purposes
only.

Most times "center across selection" will do the job.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:01:02 -0700, Support
wrote:

I need to be able to tab between protected cells on a document. Some of the
cells have been merged and the tab key just goes between two of the merged
cells and will not move to the next cell? What is stopping it from
continueing?