Prevent userform textbox from updating cell link until edited

Sicksnwboarder97

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I have an excel workbook that takes email templates and uses a range of cells to fill in the blanks in those templates. I want the user to be able to edit the message, but only after they have entered the fill in the blank data for the template. In my orog
 

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Sorry, I hit submit on accident, haha. Anyway, in my original tool, I just put a textbox over the cell with the template, and linked it to that cell. It did not edit the formula in that cell until you tried to edit the text in the textbox, which was perfect because then I could just create a macro to reset the cell when I was done. I wanted to save some space on my worksheet, so I attempted to do this in a userform instead. However, this causes the linked cell to lose it's formula upon opening the user form. Any suggestions on how to get around this so my formulas don't go away until after the template is filled?
 
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