I need to be able to tab between protected cells on a document. Some of the
cells have been merged and the tab key just goes between two of the merged
cells and will not move to the next cell? What is stopping it from
continueing?

This is one of the many problems with merged cells.

Excel doesn't know what to do with them.

I suppose there is a logical and technical reason but I haven't figured it
out.

My advice............avoid merged cells unless for presentation purposes
only.

Most times "center across selection" will do the job.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:01:02 -0700, Support
wrote:

I need to be able to tab between protected cells on a document. Some of the
cells have been merged and the tab key just goes between two of the merged
cells and will not move to the next cell? What is stopping it from
continueing?

Found the fix. If the last field on the row is merged across 2 rows it can't
advance to the next field because it can't see where to go. So make sure
that the field after the last merge is not a single row but rather the same
number of rows merged as your previous merge so that it can move to the next
field....very confusing but we got it to work.
"Gord Dibben" wrote:

This is one of the many problems with merged cells.

Excel doesn't know what to do with them.

I suppose there is a logical and technical reason but I haven't figured it
out.

My advice............avoid merged cells unless for presentation purposes
only.

Most times "center across selection" will do the job.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:01:02 -0700, Support
wrote:

I need to be able to tab between protected cells on a document. Some of the
cells have been merged and the tab key just goes between two of the merged
cells and will not move to the next cell? What is stopping it from
continueing?

Happy Excelling with your merged cells.

Hope you don't have to do any copying, pasting, sorting, filtering and other
operations.


Gord

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:29:01 -0700, Support
wrote:

Found the fix. If the last field on the row is merged across 2 rows it can't
advance to the next field because it can't see where to go. So make sure
that the field after the last merge is not a single row but rather the same
number of rows merged as your previous merge so that it can move to the next
field....very confusing but we got it to work.
"Gord Dibben" wrote:

This is one of the many problems with merged cells.

Excel doesn't know what to do with them.

I suppose there is a logical and technical reason but I haven't figured it
out.

My advice............avoid merged cells unless for presentation purposes
only.

Most times "center across selection" will do the job.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:01:02 -0700, Support
wrote:

I need to be able to tab between protected cells on a document. Some of the
cells have been merged and the tab key just goes between two of the merged
cells and will not move to the next cell? What is stopping it from
continueing?