Okay, I'm not entirely new to Excel, normally I can right click on a column
(with or without text) and then choose delete to delete it. Since having
upgraded to 2003 professional, this option appears to be hit or miss. Most
times it's greyed out, sometimes it's not.

If I open Excel (new workbook) and type anything in a given column, most of
the time I don't have the ability to delete the column. Point is, these are
not linked or special spreadsheets I'm working with. I am running with the
latest updates as well...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Larry

Hi Larry,
One possibiity, although it seems remote:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...143bcd606eff5c


--
Ken Hudson


"Larry Cooke" wrote:

Okay, I'm not entirely new to Excel, normally I can right click on a column
(with or without text) and then choose delete to delete it. Since having
upgraded to 2003 professional, this option appears to be hit or miss. Most
times it's greyed out, sometimes it's not.

If I open Excel (new workbook) and type anything in a given column, most of
the time I don't have the ability to delete the column. Point is, these are
not linked or special spreadsheets I'm working with. I am running with the
latest updates as well...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Larry

Thanks for the link Ken, though I'm not sure it would apply to me as I'm not
using any macros in these cases. I just checked and there aren't any macro's
in the sheet(s).

I just may reinstall office and see if that cures the problem...

Larry

"Ken Hudson" wrote:

Hi Larry,
One possibiity, although it seems remote:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...143bcd606eff5c


--
Ken Hudson

Remote chance here since you said this happens to new sorkbooks too, but are
you working with a shared workbook that someone else is editing? I often see
"normal" options disabled when working with shared workbooks...

Good luck...
stebro




"Larry Cooke" wrote:

Okay, I'm not entirely new to Excel, normally I can right click on a column
(with or without text) and then choose delete to delete it. Since having
upgraded to 2003 professional, this option appears to be hit or miss. Most
times it's greyed out, sometimes it's not.

If I open Excel (new workbook) and type anything in a given column, most of
the time I don't have the ability to delete the column. Point is, these are
not linked or special spreadsheets I'm working with. I am running with the
latest updates as well...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Larry

No, not working on shared workbooks at the time.

The plot thickens though, I remembered last night that I had installed some
security files (ADO stuff for Visual Office Studio I think...) Anyhow, the
IT guy at our office created a worksheet that required this add-on from
Visual Studio. He mentioned to me that he's having the exact same problem
too so I think I may have found the source of the problem, just not sure what
we need to do to correct though...

Thanks,

Larry

"stebro" wrote:

Remote chance here since you said this happens to new sorkbooks too, but are
you working with a shared workbook that someone else is editing? I often see
"normal" options disabled when working with shared workbooks...

Good luck...
stebro