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Why does pasting into an unprotected cell in Excel protect it?
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Mar 15, 202631509 viewsConfidence Score0%
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While researching the answer to this question, I stumbled across a rather odd behavior in Excel related to unprotected cells in protected worksheets. To see what I mean, create a new workbook, unprotect its first cell (A1) and protect the worksheet. The only cell that text can be entered into now s…
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It is actually expected behavior (well expected by Microsoft, not necessarily by users) which is the good news. And there is a quite simple work around which is the even better news. When you paste in a piece of formatted text the cell gets given th…
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