When I press Ctrl+C the selected cell data is deleted and cannot be undone.
Ctrl+X works fine. I'm using Excel 2003. How can I correct this? Thanks.

That's certainly unexpected behaviour.

Not too sure, but I wonder whether the cells are protected. I believe there
is even some protection to prevent copy / paste.

Apoligies if I'm barking up the wrong tree.

"Tony Amabile" wrote:

When I press Ctrl+C the selected cell data is deleted and cannot be undone.
Ctrl+X works fine. I'm using Excel 2003. How can I correct this? Thanks.

Maybe you have a macro that's stolen the ctrl-c keyboard shortcut?

Can you still use edit|copy?

You may want to test it by opening excel in safe mode (which disables macros) to
see if that's the problem:

Close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe
File|open your workbook
and test it out.

If you find that it is a macro, you may want to read these to help find that
workbook/addin:

Chip Pearson has some notes on how to diagnose startup errors:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

And Jan Karel Pieterse has more notes:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp

Tony Amabile wrote:

When I press Ctrl+C the selected cell data is deleted and cannot be undone.
Ctrl+X works fine. I'm using Excel 2003. How can I correct this? Thanks.

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Dave Peterson