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I need to prevent someone from overwiting information in a cell that has a
drop down box of items to choose from by not allowing them to paste
information they copied from other spreadsheets.
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Use Data Validation...

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I need to prevent someone from overwiting information in a cell that has a
drop down box of items to choose from by not allowing them to paste
information they copied from other spreadsheets.

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You can still paste over DV, no matter the DV (at least in xl2003). There
really isn't a practical way to prevent it.
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Use Data Validation...

"lorettal" wrote:

I need to prevent someone from overwiting information in a cell that has a
drop down box of items to choose from by not allowing them to paste
information they copied from other spreadsheets.

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