Strange Cell Movement when protecting a Sheet

[newfrontiers]

Help. After two days of trying to figure this out - I can't. I have a protected Excel sheet with 10 unlocked cells so that users can only enter information into these cells.

I have the cursor move Down upon tab or Enter. However, the cursors jumps as follows (row numbers):

1,3,2,4 and rotations through these cells without getting to the other 6 cells. Then when you move the cursor to row 5 the sequence is 5,6,7,10,8,9

I have cleared all ranges and checked underlying VBA and there is nothing apparent. It almost seems like a Tab Stop concept is being used. I understand that there is no concept in Excel, but that is how the cursor is acting.

This is a complex model so I will have a lot of reconfiguring, if I just create a new sheet and start over.

I'm using Excel 2003.

I appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks, John

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Remove the cell direction option.

Skip,

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[newfrontiers]

Unfortunately, this did not work.

 

[SkipVought]

Try RIGHT for the ENTER key.

The TAB, automatically does it correctly, right?

Skip,

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[newfrontiers]

I have the same problem with the Tab.

 

[SkipVought]

What version of Excel?

What OPTIONS are selected in the Sheet Protection?

Every other cell is LOCKED and only these 10 are UNLOCKED?

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[newfrontiers]

I'm using 2003. The only option clicked on Protection is Select Unlocked Cells. All other cells, except these 10 are unlocked.

 

[xlhelp]

Do you have named ranges that affect these cells?

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[SkipVought]

Are there any MERGED cells?

Skip,

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