Excel 2013 Insert and Delete (column/row) grayed out for all workbook

Anonymous
2013-09-23T11:31:31+00:00

Hello -

I have an odd issue.   No matter if it is a new or existing workbook my insert and delete row/column options are greyed out.   The workbook is not protected as this happens for even brand new ones as well.  I have searched and cannot locate a solution.

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Windows 8

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Anonymous
2013-09-23T11:35:20+00:00

Just solved my own issue.

Had to delete the \Office\15.0\Excel\Options via regedit.

Problem resolved.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-11T10:39:29+00:00

    Thanks a lot. I was struggling to get it fixed. Through your recommendation, I followed that procedure and now, its working.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-13T04:23:25+00:00

    Thanks James.   Same way I cannot copy values by providing double click.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-29T13:30:13+00:00

    Solved by doing this as suggest  by  the  techie guns it worked..Thanks folks

    You simply need to close Excel, then navigate to "%appdata%\Microsoft\Excel" in Windows explorer and rename Excel15.xlb to Excel15.old, and finally restart Excel and the problem should be fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-30T05:26:08+00:00

    Wow this is really useful and it works :) Cheers and thanks

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