Error or idiocy? Can't insert anything into Excel

[bmckenna]

I hope there is just some sort of checked box somewhere that I am missing, but I can't insert anything (picture, charts, text box, developer items, all greyed out), and none of the charts are visible in my workbook anymore. I closed and re-opened it, nothing. Idears?

 

[tazzlair]

Well the simplest explanation is that the worksheets are protected. Did you already check that?

 

[rconverse]

^This

 

[bmckenna]

No sir, they aren't. Its my workbook too. My thought is that I am using live connections to an Oracle and custom in-house ISQL database that may be doing something, I don't know though.

 

[RoryA]

Have you turned off the display of objects? It's in the options somewhere (not in front of a 2007 machine just now)