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I am working on an excel spread sheet. I only need to have 9 columns for
what I want to do. The columns are from A to J. Is there a way of deleting the rest of the columns or making them inactive. This makes it easier especially when blocking a row. It would not be row of 702 columns but only of 9 columns? |
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You can't delete them but you can lock them, by selecting the whole sheet,
then go to protect sheet, and make sure to uncheck the box with select locked cells, and press OK. "mbnspect" wrote: I am working on an excel spread sheet. I only need to have 9 columns for what I want to do. The columns are from A to J. Is there a way of deleting the rest of the columns or making them inactive. This makes it easier especially when blocking a row. It would not be row of 702 columns but only of 9 columns? |
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You could hide those columns. Select columns H through IV (you can do this
quickly by entering H:IV in the Name Box, the one to the left of the Formula Bar) and then right-click the selected cells and click Hide on the popup menu that appears. Rick "mbnspect" wrote in message ... I am working on an excel spread sheet. I only need to have 9 columns for what I want to do. The columns are from A to J. Is there a way of deleting the rest of the columns or making them inactive. This makes it easier especially when blocking a row. It would not be row of 702 columns but only of 9 columns? |
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A to J is 10 columns but who's counting<g
Select columns A:J and FormatCellsProtection. Uncheck "locked". Lock the columns right of Column J and hide them. Protect the worksheet. BTW..........Where do you get the number 702 from? Excel 2007 has 16,384 columns. Earlier versions have 256 or less depending on how early you go. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:59:06 -0800, mbnspect wrote: I am working on an excel spread sheet. I only need to have 9 columns for what I want to do. The columns are from A to J. Is there a way of deleting the rest of the columns or making them inactive. This makes it easier especially when blocking a row. It would not be row of 702 columns but only of 9 columns? |
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Only problem with this Rick is that if OP selects a row header and Copies that
row, even the hidden columns are included in the selection. Although this can be overcome by first selecting the row and F5SpecialVisible CellsOK. Then do the copy and paste. Gord On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:43:47 -0500, "Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)" wrote: You could hide those columns. Select columns H through IV (you can do this quickly by entering H:IV in the Name Box, the one to the left of the Formula Bar) and then right-click the selected cells and click Hide on the popup menu that appears. Rick "mbnspect" wrote in message ... I am working on an excel spread sheet. I only need to have 9 columns for what I want to do. The columns are from A to J. Is there a way of deleting the rest of the columns or making them inactive. This makes it easier especially when blocking a row. It would not be row of 702 columns but only of 9 columns? |
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True, and I probably should include that warning when posting this
suggestion in the future; however, I would note that the OP indicated nothing would be placed in the columns to be hidden, so the only place this warning would apply is if the copied row were to be copied to a different worksheet which might have data in those same columns that were hidden in the source worksheet. Rick "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Only problem with this Rick is that if OP selects a row header and Copies that row, even the hidden columns are included in the selection. Although this can be overcome by first selecting the row and F5SpecialVisible CellsOK. Then do the copy and paste. Gord On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:43:47 -0500, "Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)" wrote: You could hide those columns. Select columns H through IV (you can do this quickly by entering H:IV in the Name Box, the one to the left of the Formula Bar) and then right-click the selected cells and click Hide on the popup menu that appears. Rick "mbnspect" wrote in message ... I am working on an excel spread sheet. I only need to have 9 columns for what I want to do. The columns are from A to J. Is there a way of deleting the rest of the columns or making them inactive. This makes it easier especially when blocking a row. It would not be row of 702 columns but only of 9 columns? |
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