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Cutting and Pasting over Referenced Cells

Asked by RealSilicaGel in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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Hi, I'm hoping there is a solution for this particular problem.
I have a really fancy/complex excel spreadsheet that I've built to automate several different tasks for the manufactuing company I work at.
The file is working well, and doing everything it should, but I have one small problem with regards to cutting and pasting.

I'll state the question in a simplified manner, and expand on it if asked:
Basically I have a cell that refereneces another cell using vlookup and an if statement.  Cell formula is:

=IF($F108>"",VLOOKUP($F108,Workorders!$1:$1800,19,FALSE),"")

That's from line 108.  This goes pretty much all the way up to line 1 and down to 200.  The referenced Cell (F) is a user entered cell containing a workorder number.  This spreadsheet is used to plan production on assembly lines.  So the 'user' will often cut and paste values from one or more cells in column F, and move them up or down (to a different assembly line).

If the user copies/pastes, then deletes the original cell, it all works fine.  But if she cuts/pastes the value, it breaks the above formula (#REF!).

The two-workarounds I have come up with, is one to use copy/paste then delete rather than cut/paste, or to hardcode the forumlas into a macro, and repopulate all the cells with the 'correct' formulae.  (I don't like the idea of doing this, as it will be time consuming and could cause other problems.)

Please let me know if there is a way to 'lock' a cell or something, so that pasting over a cell just changes the value being referenced.

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