First, thanks to everyone who has tried to help. Here are the conditions
I have encountered - Protection= all options flat and not selectable. In
a blank work sheet, all are, and it is also possible to bring up a
window with lots of opions to select for the type of data that will be
in that cell. BUT NOT IN THIS WORKSHEET. A little background - the
chruch secretary died and I am trying to help out in a crisis. Back in
the dark ages, I was a SAS programmer but as a result of brain trauma,
have only the memory of work that brought me much satisfaction.
Nonetheless, I still have that problem solving instinct that says
surely, with this worksheet that is basically a text database, I should
be able to ..... alas, I am stumped. Interestingly, at the bottom of the
Format menu is an item called style. There were only a few styles from
which to choose, but at the bottom of that window, one of the things
that could be selected (or not) was protection or lock. Maybe this
information will be of interest to you. What I have had to do is create
a database from scratch so as not to import any problems. Glad this
isn't a huge church. It will be a long night.

Trudy


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