Is this happening with a particular worksheet or all worksheets/workbooks?

What about other ribbon groups, like Data? Are they also greyed out?

Can you share the file, if it is happening with a particular file?

"Clayman" wrote:

Excel 2007

All I want to do is put a text box on a spreadsheet. When I click on
"Insert", the ribbon appears disabled. All items except Header & Footer are
grayed out.

The worksheet is not read-only.
There are no cells currently being edited.
Track Changes was turned on. I turned it off, saved and closed the
worksheet - still unavailable after reopening.

I've been using Excel since 1993. It's NEVER been this @#(*$& hard to
insert a textbox.

Thanks for your help.
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Adios,
Clay Harryman