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Can cells in MS Excel be locked so that only numeric entries will be
permitted? Perhaps alpha entries will be omitted or come back with an
error... is this possible?

Thanks for any help.

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Default Locking cells for numeric entries only

Perfect! Thanks, Paul.

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Can cells in MS Excel be locked so that only numeric entries will be
permitted? Perhaps alpha entries will be omitted or come back with an
error... is this possible?

Thanks for any help.

Matt

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