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New workbook and darn text boxes
Hello all,
I have two questions; things that are frustrating me! 1. I'm working on a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 -- it's already been built, formulas/functions are already in place. I'm not an 'expert' on Excel, I know enough to make people nervous though :-) This file as one worksheet, and I want to add another one, but "add worksheet" is greyed out. From what I can tell, it's not protected. (I also cannot move/copy the worksheet) 2. There are little text boxes EVERYWHERE in this sheet. It's driving me nuts, when I'm trying to select a cell, I keep getting text boxes, I delete one and another pops up! I bet there are 15 of them in some of these cells. Is there some way I can select ALL the text boxes (these have no text in them, btw, so they are invisible till I click on em) and delete them? Why or HOW did all these irritating boxes show up? Thanks for your help! G.I. dunno |
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New workbook and darn text boxes
OOPS, I screwed up.
The workSHEET is not protected, but the workBOOK is. Whoever created this spreadsheet is long gone -- any idea how I can crack into it so I can add another sheet? This shouldn't effect deleting all the stupid text boxes (IF I can find them all) Thanks again! "GIdunno" wrote: Hello all, I have two questions; things that are frustrating me! 1. I'm working on a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 -- it's already been built, formulas/functions are already in place. I'm not an 'expert' on Excel, I know enough to make people nervous though :-) This file as one worksheet, and I want to add another one, but "add worksheet" is greyed out. From what I can tell, it's not protected. (I also cannot move/copy the worksheet) 2. There are little text boxes EVERYWHERE in this sheet. It's driving me nuts, when I'm trying to select a cell, I keep getting text boxes, I delete one and another pops up! I bet there are 15 of them in some of these cells. Is there some way I can select ALL the text boxes (these have no text in them, btw, so they are invisible till I click on em) and delete them? Why or HOW did all these irritating boxes show up? Thanks for your help! G.I. dunno |
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New workbook and darn text boxes
one way to get rid of text boxes is to Edit-Go to-special select objects
hit OK and push backspace note this gets rid of all of them you can deselect individuals by holding down control and clicking on them if you google microsoft passwords you winds many entries. both free and ones you have to pay for. Since it is known that some free ones have had viruses in them take care if you use one. "GIdunno" wrote: OOPS, I screwed up. The workSHEET is not protected, but the workBOOK is. Whoever created this spreadsheet is long gone -- any idea how I can crack into it so I can add another sheet? This shouldn't effect deleting all the stupid text boxes (IF I can find them all) Thanks again! "GIdunno" wrote: Hello all, I have two questions; things that are frustrating me! 1. I'm working on a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 -- it's already been built, formulas/functions are already in place. I'm not an 'expert' on Excel, I know enough to make people nervous though :-) This file as one worksheet, and I want to add another one, but "add worksheet" is greyed out. From what I can tell, it's not protected. (I also cannot move/copy the worksheet) 2. There are little text boxes EVERYWHERE in this sheet. It's driving me nuts, when I'm trying to select a cell, I keep getting text boxes, I delete one and another pops up! I bet there are 15 of them in some of these cells. Is there some way I can select ALL the text boxes (these have no text in them, btw, so they are invisible till I click on em) and delete them? Why or HOW did all these irritating boxes show up? Thanks for your help! G.I. dunno |
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New workbook and darn text boxes
Thank you! I bet there were at LEAST 500 text boxes!
I'm off to look for the passwords now. "bj" wrote: one way to get rid of text boxes is to Edit-Go to-special select objects hit OK and push backspace note this gets rid of all of them you can deselect individuals by holding down control and clicking on them if you google microsoft passwords you winds many entries. both free and ones you have to pay for. Since it is known that some free ones have had viruses in them take care if you use one. "GIdunno" wrote: OOPS, I screwed up. The workSHEET is not protected, but the workBOOK is. Whoever created this spreadsheet is long gone -- any idea how I can crack into it so I can add another sheet? This shouldn't effect deleting all the stupid text boxes (IF I can find them all) Thanks again! "GIdunno" wrote: Hello all, I have two questions; things that are frustrating me! 1. I'm working on a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 -- it's already been built, formulas/functions are already in place. I'm not an 'expert' on Excel, I know enough to make people nervous though :-) This file as one worksheet, and I want to add another one, but "add worksheet" is greyed out. From what I can tell, it's not protected. (I also cannot move/copy the worksheet) 2. There are little text boxes EVERYWHERE in this sheet. It's driving me nuts, when I'm trying to select a cell, I keep getting text boxes, I delete one and another pops up! I bet there are 15 of them in some of these cells. Is there some way I can select ALL the text boxes (these have no text in them, btw, so they are invisible till I click on em) and delete them? Why or HOW did all these irritating boxes show up? Thanks for your help! G.I. dunno |
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