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How was user able to (accidentally) change an unlocked cell to loc
I gave a user a protected worksheet with a range of unlocked cells. She
edited (typed into) one such unprotected cell. At some point she also saved the file and at one point she also had to use an autorecovered version of the file after her computer crashed. After saving, and possibly also after the autorecovery, she attempted to copy content from an unlocked cell and paste it into the unlocked cell she had previously edited. She received a message that this cell she was trying to paste to was locked. She returned her copy of the file to me. The worksheet was still protected (she was never told and couldn't have guessed the password, and wouldn't know how to change the cell settings), and this cell was indeed set as locked in her copy. I looked at the original copy I had emailed to her, and in that copy the cell was set as unlocked. How could this setting have changed while the worksheet was protected? Could it have simply been a weird error upon autorecovery? Or is there possibly something I need to do to prevent it? Excel Help provides no clues. |
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How was user able to (accidentally) change an unlocked cell toloc
Cells are set as Locked by default. Perhaps the cell she copied from
was Locked, and so when she pasted into the unlocked cell it then became locked. Hope this helps. Pete On Mar 25, 4:30*pm, J-Bo wrote: I gave a user a protected worksheet with a range of unlocked cells. She edited (typed into) one such unprotected cell. At some point she also saved the file and at one point she also had to use an autorecovered version of the file after her computer crashed. After saving, and possibly also after the autorecovery, she attempted to copy content from an unlocked cell and paste it into the unlocked cell she had previously edited. She received a message that this cell she was trying to paste to was locked. She returned her copy of the file to me. The worksheet was still protected (she was never told and couldn't have guessed the password, and wouldn't know how to change the cell settings), and this cell was indeed set as locked in her copy. I looked at the original copy I had emailed to her, and in that copy the cell was set as unlocked. How could this setting have changed while the worksheet was protected? Could it have simply been a weird error upon autorecovery? Or is there possibly something I need to do to prevent it? Excel Help provides no clues. |
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