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XL97: Cannot Drag Page Breaks in Page Break Preview

Article ID: 201217

Article Last Modified on 8/27/2002

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q201217

SYMPTOMS

You are not able to drag page breaks in Page Break Preview, although you receive a dialog box indicating that you can.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when the Allow cell drag and drop check box on the Edit tab of the Options dialog box is cleared.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, select the Allow cell drag and drop check box:

On the Tools menu, click Options.
On the Edit tab, click to select the Allow cell drag and drop check box, and click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For more information about moving page breaks, click Contents and Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Excel Help, type the following text

page breaks, moving

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Insert or move a page break" topic. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

Additional query words: XL97

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