how can I disable "cutting cells" and "drag and drop "in excel ?

[mwoody]

I need to disable the "cut" and the "drag and drop" functions on all
worksheets in the entire workbook. However, I want the copy and paste
function to remain by using the "right click" on the mouse. All sheets in the
workbook are protected so the cells in question are "unprotected cells".

 

[Bob Bridges]

Interesting: You want to leave some cells unprotected so a user can modify
the contents with keystrokes (eg typing "3" into it), and you don't mind
"delete" and "paste", but you want to prevent (drag-and-)drop and "cut"?
Guess I'd better not ask why. Someone else here may know better, but I'm
thinking if this can be done at all it'll have to be with a VBA macro, say a
big KeyPress monitor that intercepts just the changes you want and refuses to
respond to them....if that's even possible. If so, you should post this
question on the Excel Programming forum.

 

[Steve Peel]

You can disable the "drag and drop" feature in the "Tools" menu under options
- deselect the box labeled "drag and drop". You can also remove the "cut"
icon in the menu bar (the scissors) by selecting "customize" in the "Tools"
menu and drag the scissors out of the menu bar into "Customize". But, as far
as disabling the feature so it is not available in the "Edit" menu or the
"right click" menu???? I can't think of any way outside of trapping it with
VBA code.

 

[Bob Bridges]

And then there are the keyboard shortcuts for cutting and pasting, ie
<Shift-Del> and <Ctl-X> for the former and <Shift-Ins>, <Ctl-V> and <Enter>
for the latter.

Ah, yes, I forgot about the Options checkbox for drag-and-drop.

 

[Spiky]

You can disable the "drag and drop" feature in the "Tools" menu under options
- deselect the box labeled "drag and drop". You can also remove the "cut"
icon in the menu bar (the scissors) by selecting "customize" in the "Tools"
menu and drag the scissors out of the menu bar into "Customize". But, as far
as disabling the feature so it is not available in the "Edit" menu or the
"right click" menu???? I can't think of any way outside of trapping it with
VBA code.

You can also remove commands from the Edit menu in Customize. However,
all these are changes to Excel Options, not Workbook Options. So you'd
have to go around to each computer and sabotage it. And a user could
simply put them back, or maybe whine to IT who would fix it.

VBA is the only answer.