altering shortcuts/problems w/ delete key

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I am working on a project in excel and have run into a problem. What I
have made is a model of a tennis game where each point is determined
with excel's rand number generator and whether or not a given
fraction(odds) is higher or lower than the random # for that point.
The whole thing is quite nifty looking, branching out like a flow
chart. I have macros created to run 1000 games at a time and the wins
for each player get recorded in a cell under each "game winable
cell"(there's a lot of game winning cells when you extend a game out to
thirty some deuce points). That sounds confusing. Its kind of hard to
describe but if you're still with me, the problem comes when I try to
reset all of the games won to zero. To reset the games to zero I
simply type "reset" in cell A1. After I do that they all return to
zero but then I have to delete the "reset" otherwise the games won
won't record. Since delete is a shortcut to run the random number
generator, when I try to delete "reset" I always get one game recorded.
And there you have it, my question: is there a way to alter the
shortcut keys in excel so that delete does not run the random #
generator and give me that recorded win? or is there another way I can
get around recording that one win after I have reset all wins to zero?
if you have any ideas you can post or email to me at (e-mail address removed)
Thanks Very Much!
 
I think you're saying that =rand() recalculates whenever you do a clearcontents
(delete) in a cell.

I'm not sure that this fits your model, but could you turn calculation to
manual, then clearcontents, then right before (not too early) you want to run
your simulation, you turn calculation back to automatic?

(Tools|options|calculation tab is where this stuff is located)
 
"I think you're saying that =rand() recalculates whenever you do a
clearcontents
(delete) in a cell."

That's exactly what I am saying. I don't have the project on my
computer at home but I will try you're suggestion on Monday. Thanks
for your help.
 

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