DISABLING CUT OPTION ON WEB VERSION OF EXCEL

[misiek5510]

Hi,

I have very annoying issue. I have a set of unlocked cells and locked cells that calculate things from the unlocked cells (based user input). I'm using absolute references to fix which cells I want to look at, so copy and paste works fine, however the issue occurs when you cut and paste it gives me an !REF error. I'd like to disable cut option as there is no other way to fix this, however the problem is the VBA does not work on the teams / web / sharepoint version of excel, therefore people are messing my sheets up by cutting and pasting. Is there anything I can do apart from endlessly fixing it ?

 

[Micron]

You could try trapping the ctrl+x combination but I haven't tried that in Excel. If the cut occurs before the event then I don't know how you'd restore what was there.

Application.OnKey method (Excel)

Office VBA reference topic

learn.microsoft.com

EDIT - my thinking was that this would be an event that could be cancelled or undone as it can be in Access. Apparently not so, and at the moment I can't think of how to make use of that. Maybe cause a ctrl+z action?

 

[Micron]

FWIW, it appears that I did get it to work by shifting the OnKey code to the worksheet activate event instead of the workbook. However, that still leaves Cut on the ribbon, unless maybe you have modified the ribbon. AFAIK, you cannot disable/enable ribbon commands based on sheet selection. So your only option would be to customize the ribbon by disabling cut as well as use OnKey code. However, no sheet in the wb would be able to use cut on the ribbon, so perhaps said workbook would have to be limited to whatever sheets you would prevent this on.

Not sure if you could code to protect/unprotect sheet and wb in a way that would allow your users to still make certain changes.