Policy overview

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ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Excel 2016 > Excel Options > Advanced
Supported onWindows7

This policy setting sets the "Alert before overwriting cells" option found under File tab | Options | Advanced | Editing Options. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, Excel will give a warning if cells are about to be overwritten. This is the default behavior. If you disable this policy setting, Excel will suppress the warning that cells are about to be overwritten.

Internal name
L_Alertbeforeoverwritingcells
Policy ID
36ecda4a332f
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options\binaryoptions\fnodragwarning_76_1REG_DWORD
0
1

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