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    locked cells

    I have a workbook that I want to setup for use for multiple folks. Gonna share it in the cloud. I want people to be able to copy/paste their info from their source into my workbook, but I don't want the format of my workbook to be changed in the process. Fonts need to be my fonts, not theirs. Data needs to be in my format, not theirs.

    Is there a way to do this?

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    Re: locked cells

    Can you educate the users to use Paste Special | Values instead of just Paste (which copies in their formats as well) ?

    Hope this helps.

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    Re: locked cells

    Another option might be to have a dummy sheet for their data, then in your sheet, you just reference the dummy sheet. That way, it does not matter how they copy/paste and your formatting wont be messed with?
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